Comments on: Zimbabwe government continues NGO harassment

By: Zimbabwe government continues NGO harassment « Nottingham Zimbabwe Community Network Weblog

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:49:10 +0000

[...] http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=10541 Zimbabwe government continues harassment of NGOs. The new year hasn’t brought a new attitude to the Zimbabwe government about human rights and freedom of expression, if the recent harassment of ZimRights is anything to go by. Read this statement from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR): [...]

By: Jack Dube

Jack Dube — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:14:27 +0000

I am worried about this trend where the police have become the complainant, judge and executioner. Machisa and his colleagues are innocent until proven guilty. This unnecessary detention of rights defenders is sheer harassment and an abuse of state resources, while the ZRP says it has no money to do what its officers are paid to do ie chasing up real criminals.

By: Tendai chifeso

Tendai chifeso — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:46:22 +0000

ZimRights under the direction of Machisa broke the law. Registering people to vote is not a crime, but creating false names to steal from donors and to possibly undermine the next government, as well as creating false government documents is.
Say what you like but NGOs operating within the law are difficult to harrass.