European Union Presses Zimbabwe to End Rights Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga (center) and her colleague Julie Barnes hold placards as they are arrested during an anti-corruption protest march in Harare, Zimbabwe, on July 31, 2020. © 2020 ZINYANGE AUNTONY / AFP The European Union is ratcheting up pressure on Zimbabwe over the lack of substantial reforms that has allowed for the humanitarian, economic, and social situation in the country to deteriorate, with persistent violations of human rights and limitations on democratic space. Barely three weeks after the United Kingdom imposed targeted sanctions…

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