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The following video contains recordings of Zambian President Michael Sata ordering the army to go to Lukula in Western Province to fire upon Zambian citizens, as well as footage of Minister of Justice Wynter Kabimba rousing the cadres to engage in violence during the last campaign, and the footage from Judge Ngoma’s public assault against …

ZAMBIA’S CIVIL SOCIETY ASKS ZAMBIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS BODY AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO REVIEW ZAMBIA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS AND DENOUNCE THE VIOLATIONS BY THE ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT Lusaka, Wednesday, 27 February 2013: AS the Zambia Police arrest and charge Zambia’s opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, seven (7) Civil Society Organisations in Zambia have called upon the Zambia’s Human …

The following report was published by Voice of America: An official of the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations says the organization has received a petition from a Zambia group calling for the temporary suspension of the southern African country. Victory Holdsworth says the secretariat has put together a team to review the petition. “We …

Nevers Mumba, Hakainde Hichilema, Sakwiba Sikota, Edwin Sakala, and Robert Amsterdam present the report to the Commonwealth denouncing rights abuses by the Zambian government on February 12 2013.

The following is an edited excerpt from the Commonwealth Report explaining the circumstances of the video contained below: According to the 2009 Affirmation of Commonwealth Values and Principles, member states must uphold “the inalienable right of the individual to participate by means of free and democratic political processes in shaping the society in which they …

The publication Global Post has posted a new article concerning the Johannesburg press conference of opposition leaders and the presentation of the Commonwealth Report. A year and a half since the election of Michael Sata as president, opposition politicians have been arrested and accused of corruption as a way of settling scores, they say. Police …

Today in Johannesburg leaders of civil society and opposition political party met with the CDDR to unveil the complaint to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group on violations of the Harare Declaration by President Michael Sata and the Patriotic Front. Download the full text of the Commonwealth Report here. While there has been much media coverage, …

The U.S. magazine Forbes has published a lengthy article investigating recent violations of political freedoms in Zambia, highlighting the application by the Coalition for the Defence of Democratic Rights to the Commonwealth requesting the provisional suspension of Zambia from the grouping pending an independent investigation. An excerpt of the article follows: Opposition figures complain that …