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Authorities must reveal journalist Itai Dzamara’s whereabouts: Amnesty International

Byron Adonis Mutingwende10 months ago04 mins

Ahead of the ninth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Itai Dzamara, a journalist and pro-democracy activist who was abducted in Harare on 9 March 2015, Vongai Chikwanda, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Nine years after the enforced disappearance of Itai Dzamara, the Zimbabwean authorities continue to impede the…

Continued detention of Job Sikhala a miscarriage of justice: Amnesty International

Byron Adonis Mutingwende1 year ago03 mins

Responding to the continued detention of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Job Sikhala, who has spent 500 days in pretrial detention, Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Job Sikhala’s prolonged detention while he awaits trial is a gross miscarriage of justice and an indictment of Zimbabwe’s judicial system….