Zimbabwe: Arbitrary arrests/Fear for Safety/Conditions of Detention/Prisoners of conscience, An estimated 1400 people.

Index Number: AFR 46/018/2002
Date Published: 12 March 2002
Categories: Africa, Zimbabwe

Around 1,400 people have been arrested during Zimbabwe's presidential election, and are detained without charge in dangerous and overcrowded conditions that could be life-threatening. Those in custody are opposition party polling agents (who monitor vote-counting), independent election observers and Zimbabwean citizens perceived to be supporters of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).