Press Releases

(Johannesburg, June 24, 2008) – The African Union should not endorse Zimbabwe’s sham presidential runoff election on June 27, Human Rights Watch said today. African Union leaders should intervene to bring an immediate end to massive state-sponsored human rights abuses and enable democratic reform.

In the past few days, government repression and violence throughout Zimbabwe has intensified. Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has increased ...

New York, June 23, 2008—Journalists in Zimbabwe have faced the harshest press crackdown in memory as they’ve tried to report on a brutally violent presidential runoff campaign, veteran reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists in a report released today, Bad to Worse in Zimbabwe.

Embattled President Robert Mugabe and his administration have used obsolete laws, trumped-up charges and retaliatory measures to detain at least 15 journalists, intimidate sources, and obstruct ...