Zimbabwe: Further information: Activists' sentences likely to be overturned

Index Number: AFR 46/007/2012
Date Published: 15 May 2012
Categories: Zambia

Six Zimbabwean activists convicted in March 2012 of conspiring to commit public violence have had their community service orders suspended following an appeal. It is likely that the orders, and suspended prison sentences handed down to the six, will now be overturned by the High Court.