Southern Africa: SADC Lawyers Blast Vicious State Crackdown On Zim Protests

22 January 2019

A regional lawyers group has both condemned and urged a stop to the Zimbabwean authorities' vicious crackdown on alleged instigators and perpetrators of last week's deadly anti-government protests that have claimed 12 lives, according to independent estimates.

In a Monday statement, the Southern African Development Community Lawyers Association (SADC-LA) said it was saddened by the sorry turn of events in Zimbabwe.

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