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ZANU PF Youths blast lawyers for representing protestors
ZANU PF Youth League Mashonaland West Province has condemned the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and Doctors for Human Rights for assisting the victims of the state crackdown on citizens with medica...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:31hrs | 3739 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Justice Malaba instructed magistrates to deny protestors bail' Jonathan Moyo alleges
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that Chief Justice Luke Malaba instructed magistrates to deny bail to persons accused of taking part in the violent protests that...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 09:52hrs | 6524 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Two Harare protestors jailed for 30 months
Harare Magistrate Victoria Mashamba on Monday sentenced two residents Shadreck Asani Daniel Shingirayi to serve 30 months in prison and suspended 12 months.The pair was convicted for committin...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:25hrs | 2485 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti to hear his fate on 18 February
Harare Magistrate Gloria Takundwa on Monday announced that she will hand down her ruling on 18 February 2019 in a matter where MDC National Deputy Chairperson Tendai Biti is accused of contravening th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 14:08hrs | 1547 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Court acquits first batch of protesters
Seven people have been acquitted of committing public violence crimes during anti-government protests.The six Chinhoyi residents, namely: Obey Zirota aged 37 years, Simbarashe Mubaira Kuenda, ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 15:12hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lawyers divided over onslaught on Judiciary
The fallout in the legal fraternity continues as a handful of lawyers embarked on a march dubbed #MarchForJustice yesterday, confirming revelations by The Herald on Monday that shadowy forces had rope...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:51hrs | 5795 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers march against army killings
Zimbabwean Lawyers on Tuesday are going to march against the abuse of human rights being perpetrated by state agents and the abuse of rule of law taking place in the courts.Dubbed #MarchForJus...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:20hrs | 1659 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi memories ignited
For years, Bulawayo residents have been known to be easy-going when it comes to nationwide anti-government protests compared to Harare, which has somewhat emerged as the citadel in expressing grievanc...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1126 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was right in shutting down the internet
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights took the government to court with the Zimbabwean chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa, ZLHR. Access to Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter was closed...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:52hrs | 2894 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Evan Mawarire likely to be released on Tuesday
The lawyer representing #ThisFlag Leader Pastor Evan Mawarire has announced that the State has consented to the granting of bail to his client.Said the lawyer, "The state was alleging that the...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:00hrs | 1672 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: The real truth about Beatrice Mtetwa
Award winning journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has published a documentary that traces the life of human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa.The documentary traces her life from her countrywide of...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 12:33hrs | 4824 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beatings by soldiers continuing unabated
Rights lawyers yesterday accused the military and police of savagely assaulting 28 people who were receiving treatment in hospital after suffering severe injuries in previous beatings - before going o...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:45hrs | 780 | by Staff reporter
28 arrested in police raid at 'safe house'
ABOUT 28 victims of torture by State security agents were on Monday morning arrested from a safe house in Harare from where they were receiving treatment and are today expected to appear in court for ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 11:20hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Police raid, arrest injured people at hospital
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has reported that members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police stormed a Harare hospital and arrested 28 visibly injured person who are accused of participati...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 12:09hrs | 6219 | by Mandla Ndlovu
MNOs restore full Internet services
THE High Court in Harare yesterday ruled that National Security Minister Owen Ncube had no authority to order a shutdown of Internet services. Service providers immediately restored services. ...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:04hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe High Court to rule on Internet suit
THE High Court in Harare will today rule on the legality of the Government's directive to mobile network operators to shut down all internet operations in the country during last week's violent demons...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:13hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over Internet blackout
Two civic society organisations have dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the High Court following a government decision to completely shut down the Internet twice in a week, following a three-day ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:56hrs | 7839 | by Staff reporter
Rights lawyers challenge Zimbabwe internet shutdown
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), in conjunction with the Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe chapter (Misa-Zimbabwe), has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel all the ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 3584 | by Staff Reporter
BREAKING: Soldiers abduct civic society leader Rashid Mahiya's mother
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights have revealed that members of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces have abducted Chairperson Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition leader Rashid Mahiya's mother in a bid to force him t...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 17:23hrs | 7650 | by Mandla Ndlovu
VPN searches in Zimbabwe surge 1,560%
Zimbabweans are turning to VPNs to find a way around an apparent government internet shutdown, Zim Techreview reported. A...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 16:04hrs | 6283 | by Staff reporter
Rights group petition Switzerland President to ban Mnangagwa
A local rights group Restoration of Human Rights (ROHR Zimbabwe) has written to the President of Switzerland to bar President Emmerson Mnangagwa from entering Switzerland to attend the World Eco...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 14:50hrs | 4228 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Military door-to-door raids slammed
The Zimbabwe National Army and Zimbabwe Republic Police deployed heavily to contain anti-government protests, conducting door-to door-raids and brutally assaulting civilians in their homes, rights law...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:11hrs | 2151 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Evan Mawarire charged with treason
#ThisFlag leader Pastor Evan Mawarire who was arrested yesterday has been charged with Subverting a constitutional government (treason, in other words).He is charged under section 22 of the Cr...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 12:30hrs | 18910 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt should nip MDC, NGOs
The manner in which the violence rocking the nation is being handled by pro-opposition elements simply indicates an unparalleled determination to deliberately stir despondency in Zimbabwe and send neg...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 10:20hrs | 973 | by Jasper Hloka
Calls for diaspora protests at Zimbabwe embassies
Pro-democracy groups called on Zimbabweans in the diaspora to stage protests at the country's embassies after the Harare regime shut down the internet as it launched a crackdown against civilians....Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 874 | by newzimbabwe.com
Students turned away over fees
Hundreds of students across the country have been turned away from school for non-payment of fees despite government's directive not to send learners away.This comes after Primary and Secondar...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:17hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Police visit to CiZC a 'courtesy call'
In a surprising twist, the officer-in-charge at Milton Park Police Station has told Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition(CiZC)'s lawyers that plain-clothes police officers who visited CiZC offices on Thursday...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:16hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Woman sues police over shooting
A CHITUNGWIZA woman, who was shot by a police officer manning a roadblock along the Harare-Chitungwiza Road, is seeking over $17 000 compensation for injuries sustained.Loveness Chiriseri rece...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:58hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Police crush teachers' protest demo
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has alleged that police boss in Marondera Chief Superintendent Nenguwo has instructed his officers to block their protest march which moved fro...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 11:07hrs | 3848 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tendai Biti relives court horror
MDC National Deputy Chairperson has opened up on how he felt when he underwent the recent gruelling court process that ended up seeing the court grantimng him back his passport and lessening of his ba...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 12:24hrs | 4336 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'There will not be peace in Zimbabwe'
Dr Ibbo Mandaza, SAPES director says there will not be peace in Zimbabwe as long as the military remains in charge.Mandaza alleges that the much awaited for Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 20:07hrs | 4643 | by Ndou Paul
Chief Maduna seeks Amnesty protection after confronting Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
OUTSPOKEN traditional chief Vezi Maduna Mafu has sought protection from Amnesty International's South African office while claiming President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assigned state agents to trail him ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 07:22hrs | 9112 | by newzimbabwe
Linda Masarira disowns article...fingers pastor
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira has disowned an article that is making rounds on social media which is attacking civic society and MDC as being the problems that are behind the Zimbabwean crisis. Ma...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 11:58hrs | 2911 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Courts free woman who insulted Mugabe
Karoi Magistrates Court has freed a 46 year old woman who was arrested for insulting Former President Robert Mugabe.In a statement on Thursday, her lawyers the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Right...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 11:46hrs | 2845 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's 'new dispensation' in Zimbabwe stuck in the old ways
Veteran Zimbabwe opposition legislator Joel Gabbuza thought he was stating the obvious when he told mourners that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party was struggling to revive the econo...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 20:30hrs | 2128 | by Kitsepile Nyathi I The East African
Chigumba's 'good sex' court case collapses
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission chairperson Justice Chigumba did not turn up Wednesday for the trial of a Harare socialite accused of insulting her, resulting the latter walking away from court a free m...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 22:52hrs | 1993 | by newzimbabwe
Col. Elliot Piki's wife withdraws court case
The wife of Elliot Piki, a retired member of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) on Wednesday 28 withdrew an application she filed early this week seeking an order compelling Zimbabwe authorities t...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 15:15hrs | 4389 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Col. Elliot Piki's wife approaches high court
The wife of a retired army colonel who was allegedly kidnapped at his home on Sunday, has approached the High Court seeking an order compelling the government to investigate the incident and to establ...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 10:38hrs | 2040 | by Staff Reporter
Kidnapping claim hits killing probe
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a retired army colonel who was allegedly abducted from his home on Sunday afternoon by masked men - amid claims that he was due to testify before the official prob...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | 3937 | by Staff reporter
General Sibanda's testimony disputed
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) rarely admits to wrongdoing, officials from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) told a Commission of Inquiry probing the August 1 post-election violence that...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:14hrs | 8918 | by Staff reporter
The bad habits Mnangagwa won't stop
One of the reasons Zimbabweans were eager to see long-time ruler Robert Mugabe's back was because his regime stifled freedom of expression and those that dared criticise him publicly paid dearly. ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:03hrs | 1993 | by Staff reporter
MDC bigwig off the hook
MDC women's assembly chairperson Lynette Karenyi, who was accused of insulting former president Robert Mugabe, is off the hook after the State indicated yesterday that it was withdrawing the charges....Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 12:56hrs | 1773 | by Staff reporter
Komichi's trial takes new twist
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) security officers were yesterday grilled by MDC deputy president Morgen Komichi's lawyer.Komichi is facing charges of going...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 11:11hrs | 3624 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti back in court
On Monday, the trial of opposition political party leader Tendai Biti commenced at the Harare Magistrates Court. He is being represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights members Beat...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 09:33hrs | 2164 | by Mandla Ndlovu
State fails to serve Chigumba
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba is expected to appear in court to testify against a former Midlands State University student, Night Tawona Shadaya who is accused of ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:02hrs | 5675 | by Staff reporter
Police apologise to top lawyer for wrongful arrest
The police have apologised to seasoned lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu, after conceding to wrongfully arresting and detaining him on charges of trying to obstruct the course of justice.He was arreste...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:42hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU leaders ask court to drop public violence charges against them
SEVEN Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders on Tuesday 30 October 2018 petitioned a Zimbabwean court seeking an order dropping public violence charges against the unionists after arguing th...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:47hrs | 478 | by Stephen Jakes
Dowa, Chihuri and Tomana on trial over harassment of Mahlangu
HIGH Court Judge Justice Philda Muzofa today presided over the trial of some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers, who are being sued by human rights lawyer Mordecai Mahlangu for the harassment he ...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 19:44hrs | 2622 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa's crackdown on dissent stepped up
THE Police have stepped up their crackdown against perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after arresting and charging a Bulawayo man with undermining his authority.Wisdom Mkwanan...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Minor allowed to write exams without ID
The High Court has come to the rescue of a 15-year-old Form Four pupil who was barred from sitting for her Ordinary Level examinations because she does not have a national identity card. The c...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:28hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
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