In this press release, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum condemns the Mnangagwa government’s latest arrest of human rights defenders and criminalisation of human rights work in Zimbabwe in violation of fundamental rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution of Zimbabwe and international law.
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