A GROUP of Zimbabweans basically based totally mostly within the UK (UK) held one more issue Friday against the persisted incarceration of opposition Residents Coalition for Change (CCC) activists and other human rights violations in Zimbabwe.
They staged an illustration on the Zimbabwean Embassy before submitting a petition to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, urging him to tension President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s authorities to liberate all jailed activists.
The issue turned into as soon as organised by CCC UK, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO), and other activists within the diaspora, including ousted Ntabazinduna chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni.
In their petition, the community demanded that the British authorities assist in pressuring Mnangagwa to free all jailed CCC and other human rights activists.
According to human rights teams in Zimbabwe, bigger than 100 activists had been arrested before the Southern African Pattern Community (SADC) summit; some have been launched, but many remain imprisoned.
“Zimbabwean authorities ought to discontinue their crackdown on opposition and civil society people who had been arrested before the SADC summit in August 2024.
“The authorities ought to at this time and unconditionally liberate each person detained for exercising their rights.
“Additionally, authorities must promptly and effectively investigate allegations of torture or ill-treatment of detainees and hold any suspected perpetrators accountable through fair proceedings,” reads the petition.
The community also referred to as on the British authorities to toughen their push for a diaspora vote, a reform that opposition activists have prolonged sought without success.
“Over six million Zimbabweans within the diaspora have been denied their human lovely to vote by the Zanu PF administration, on the grounds that they’re ‘outside the country.’
“We seek assistance, both financial and material, to conduct an independent Zimbabwean Diaspora Election concurrently with the official general elections in Zimbabwe.”
