THE Human Rights Commission (HRC) says it has observed a worrying trend where the police have either stopped or disrupted the opposition political parties from exercising their democratic rights to freedom of association and assembly. The Commission has since called on government to take practical steps to immediately stop the systematic erosion of human rights perpetuated by the police. In a statement, Monday, Commission Chairperson Pamela Sambo condemned the invasion of the Catholic Bishop’s office in Kabwe by police in an attempt to disrupt a meeting with former president Edgar Lungu. “The Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) calls upon the Zambia Police Service (“the Police”) to put an immediate stop to the continued arbitrary application of the Public Order Act,...