Summary of Violations
Heal Zimbabwe recorded a total of 82 human rights violations in 21 districts from the 1st - 23rd of July 2018. Heal Zimbabwe observed that the recorded human rights violations fall under the same five categories that featured in the previous report. These categories include intimidation, destruction of campaign material, assault, forced participation to political gatherings and partisan distribution of aid (food and inputs). Intimidation recorded the highest number of cases with 81.7% (67 cases) 16 cases higher compared to the previous report which registered 87.93% (51 cases). Destruction of campaign material was second recording 6.09% (5 cases). Forced participation to political gatherings and partisan distribution of aid recorded 4.87% (4 cases) each. Assault recorded the least with 2.43% (4 cases). Heal Zimbabwe observed that the human rights violations originated from (i) Presidential Proclamation of the elections dates, (ii) ZANU PF weekly community meetings (iii) ZANU PF and MDC Alliance rallies (iv) food hand outs from the Department of Social Welfare and (v) the BVR system.
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