Zimbabwe UPR Interactive Dialogue Public Screening

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Zimbabwe UPR Interactive Dialogue Public Screening


Zimbabwe’s human rights situation will be under review on Wednesday 2 November 2016 from 9am to 12:30pm under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which is a mechanism established by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a peer country to country review mechanism of the overall human rights situation of the UN member states.



Zimbabwe participated in the UPR process in 2011 for the first time and accepted various recommendations in the outcome report.



The southern African country will on Wednesday 02 November be reviewed during the second cycle of the UPR process and it is required to report back on the progress made towards implementing the recommendations it accepted in 2011.



In seeking to raise awareness of the UPR process, ZLHR on behalf of the civil society UPR Steering Committee representatives namely the National Association of Non Governmental Organisations, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum and ZLHR itself, will host a Zimbabwe UPR Interactive Dialogue Public Screening on Wednesday 02 November 2016 in Harare at Holiday Inn Hotel Harare from 9:00 hours to 12:30 hours, in Bulawayo at Holiday Inn Hotel and in Mutare at Mutare Club, where people can follow live the screening of proceedings of the interactive dialogue during the review of Zimbabwe by the UN member states during the UN HRC led- UPR on its live broadcast channel, ‘webcast’.



The UPR proceedings can be watched live by simply following the link:
http://webtv.un.org/ 

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SPECTACULAR END TO PERSECUTION OF CITIZENS AS STATE WITHDRAWS CHARGES AGAINST BULAWAYO RESIDENTS TARGETED OVER #SHUTDOWNZIM2016

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THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday 03 October 2016 withdrew charges against 86 Bulawayo residents who were arrested in July and charged with committing public violence after they allegedly took part in the #ShutdownZim2016 anti-government protests.

Jeremiah Mutsindikwa of the NPA withdrew charges against 86 Bulawayo residents after conceding that there is no sufficient evidence to even consider commencement of trial for the accused persons who appeared before Bulawayo Magistrate Charity Maphosa on Monday 03 October 2016.

The 86 Bulawayo residents, who were represented by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) lawyers Jonathan Tsvangirai, Lison Ncube, Jabulani Mhlanga and Tanaka Muganyi were arrested on 06 July 2016 at Mzilikazi Township in Bulawayo, where they were accused of participating in protests staged against the government.

They spent two days detained at Mzilikazi Police Station before they appeared at Bulawayo Magistrates Court, where they were granted $80 bail each by Magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure on 08 July 2016.

ZLHR has in recent months and weeks been witnessing the collapse of cases where several citizens were arrested and prosecuted for allegedly participating in anti-government protests staged in July. Judicial officers have granted applications for refusal of further remand filed by ZLHR lawyers who would have challenged the arrest and prosecution of citizens as unlawful and malicious.

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Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

6th Floor, Beverley Court

100 Nelson Mandela Avenue Harare, Zimbabwe

Phone+263 4 764085/705370/708118