Zimbabwe: Opposition Activists Wrongfully Denied Bail

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Activists with the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party arrive at the Magistrates' courts in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 19, 2024. © 2024 MUNASHE CHOKODZA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (Johannesburg) – Zimbabwe’s authorities should immediately take measures to end the prolonged pretrial detention of over 70 opposition activists, most of them young people, who have been held since June 16, 2024.That day, police raided the home of an opposition leader in a suburb of Harare, the capital, and arrested people commemorating the Day of the African Child.…

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