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Partisan policing: An obstacle to human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe

Publisher: International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Copyright: 2007

Publisher Website: http://www.ibanet.org/

Language: en

Category: Conflict, Peace and Security, Legal and Judicial Affairs


This report follows a visit to Zimbabwe by a high-level delegation of legal experts. It cites widespread abuses by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) that range from torture and arbitrary arrests to disobedience of court orders and beatings and intimidation of lawyers. The report asserts that police routinely commit serious violations of human rights, subvert the rule of law and play a blatantly partisan role.


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