Cops deny CSO clamp down

The police force is not clamping down on any organisation but simply carrying out its constitutional mandate of maintaining law and order by investigating crime, claims spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Charity Charamba.

She said if organisations such as ZPP and Zimrights commit offences they are subject to arrest and prosecution like any other citizen.

“The case of Zimrights and its officials is before the courts of law and therefore we cannot comment any further. The ZPP case is still under investigations and will be taken to court once these are done,” Charamba told The Zimbabwean.

Last month Zimbabwe rights groups condemned what they described as an escalating campaign against critics of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF) ahead of coming elections.

A group of 58 civic society organisations including churches and legal groups said in a statement there was a ‘well calculated and intensified’ assault on human rights activists, journalists and artists through slander, intimidation, raids, arrests, prosecutions and persecutions.

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