Zimbabwe: 7 Detained After Rights Meeting

Expand Farirai Gumbonzvanda at Chikurubi Maximum Prison on May 29, 2019. © Private (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe’s authorities should immediately release seven activists and drop fabricated charges of seeking to subvert the government. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the local group representing the activists, said that state security agents arrested all seven between May 20 and 27, 2019, at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, the capital, on their return from a workshop in the Maldives. The workshop, hosted by the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, focused…

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