In this Human Rights Report, Heal Zimbabwe Trust takes a look into the state of human rights in the country and other key conflict issues for the month of August. Heal Zimbabwe receives reports from its trained Human Rights Monitors across the country.

The month of August saw a sharp rise in human rights violations and conflict, particularly those perpetrated by the state and its agencies. The period preceding the SADC summit was punctuated by arbitrary arrests, pretrial detention, abductions, intimidation and a litany of human rights violations targeting human rights defenders, prodemocracy voices, opposition activists and government critics. The
crackdown on dissent was meant to shut down any prospects of citizens exercising the right to protest during the SADC summit. In the end, more than 160 citizens were arrested and charged with various offences with the underlying factor being that all of them were interrogated on their plans to protest during the summit.

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