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Internet shutdown in Zimbabwe: What happened?

Source: Access Now Only five days after the United Nations passed an historic resolution specifically condemning internet shutdowns, reports from Zimbabwe suggest that the government may have ordered WhatsApp blocked. Zimbabweans and local news outlets reported an internet shutdown in the context of massive social unrest. Thousands of people are protesting about bad governance and […]

Analysis: Zimbabweans are hungry for change, but Mugabe still thinks it’s his turn to eat

Source: Daily Maverick http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-07-06-analysis-zimbabweans-are-hungry-for-change-but-mugabe-still-thinks-its-his-turn-to-eat/ Most revolutions are about food, not politics, so it comes as no surprise that the recent political unrest in Zimbabwe comes on the heels of food and cash shortages. By SIMON ALLISON. “Zimbabwe is on the brink of implosion,” reported Independent Group’s foreign editor Shannon Ebrahim in a breathless recap of […]

Zimbabwe shuts down in peaceful protest against corruption

Source: The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/zimbabwe-shuts-down-peaceful-protest-against-corruption-thisflag-harare Zimbabweans have stayed at home and foreign banks and most businesses in the capital, Harare, have shut down operations in one of the biggest – and most peaceful – stay-away actions in nearly a decade. The national stay-away day in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, fronted by the social media movement ‪#ThisFlag, came […]

Harare protestors bail hearing to continue tomorrow

Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Magistrate Vakayi Chikwekwe will on Thursday 7 July make a ruling on the bail application made by Epworth and Mabvuku residents who are being charged with Public Violence as defined under section 36(1) of the Criminal Law and Codification and Reform Act Chapter 9:23. The 105 residents who were arrested on Monday 4 July, […]

Dispatches: Zimbabwe Blocks Internet Amid Police Crackdown

Source: Dewa Mavhinga, Human Rights Watch This morning, an activist in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, called to say that the authorities have done the unthinkable and unprecedented: blocked Internet access and WhatsApp text messaging to obstruct people protesting traffic police corruption, widespread poverty, and lack of jobs. “Please tell the world that we have been shut down,” […]

Zimbabwe government blocks WhatsApp as workers stay away

Source: Mail & Guardian http://mg.co.za/article/2016-07-06-zimbabwe-government-blocks-whatsapp-as-workers-stay-away-1 The Zimbabwe government on Wednesday blocked the WhatsApp service to its citizens as the country’s workers heeded calls for a stayaway dubbed the “national shutdown” to put pressure on the regime in power in the Southern African country for almost four decades. By 7am it was no longer possible to […]

6 arrested in Masvingo

Source: COTRAD Masvingo citizens, churches and CSOs led a successful stay way today as most businesses, companies and transport operators engaged in tools down until the Government of Zimbabwe has responded to the citizen issues which include corruption in most government departments, misrule, rule by impunity, lawlessness, employment as promised in the Zanu PF Manifesto […]

#ShutDownZim: ZLHR deploys lawyers throughout Zim over arrest of citizens

Source: Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Lunchtime Update In Bulawayo, ZLHR is offering emergency legal services to four people who have been arrested in the country’s second largest city. In Zvishavane in Midlands province, ZLHR is assisting six people, who have been arrested for allegedly gathering in the defunct asbestos mining town. In Victoria Falls […]