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Title: | The professional trajectory of a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008 |
Author: | Tsunga, Arnold |
Year: | 2009 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 977-991 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | lawyers human rights rule of law |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03057070903314242 |
Abstract: | This article is based on the Bram Fisher Memorial Lecture, delivered in New College Oxford in November 2008. It draws on the author's own personal experiences as a human rights lawyer in Zimbabwe between 2000 and 2008, and documents the attempts made by him and other legal practitioners to uphold the rule of law in the face of constant assault on the part of the State. The article provides an account of the events that provoked the author's engagement with the realm of human rights law, describes his battles with the Chimanimani police and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) as he endeavoured to represent Roy Bennett and other MDC members. It spells out the persecution that human rights lawyers received, examines State propaganda against Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights and the efforts to derail their work through violence and intimidation, as well as describing the effects of this onslaught on colleagues and their families. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |