No Forced Returns to Zimbabwe

Published by Preacher Prince Muguza on Nov 02, 2009

ZIM: Petition: No Forced Returns to Zimbabwe!
Forcible returns to Zimbabwe were suspended since September 2006, when high court judges ruled that those who could not demonstrate their loyalty to Robert Mugabe’s regime would face persecution on their return. The UK government has now announced that they will be resuming returns of people to Zimbabwe.

The Home Office say that there have been improvements in Zimbabwe since the formation of the unity government, with Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), as prime minister under President Mugabe.

In fact, in the past few days allegations of arrest, intimidation and harassment of supporters of the MDC and of human rights defenders have been widely reported. The UN’s monitor on torture was forcibly expelled from the capital, Harare, at the end of October and Amnesty International has warned that Zimbabwe is "on the brink of sliding back into violence".

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Despite the UK government’s claims that Zimbabwe is stable, events on the ground show that Zimbabweans that are returned will be at risk.

We demand that no-one is sent back to Zimbabwe against their will.

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