SOCIALIST Party leader Dr Fred M’membe says it’s sad that it had to take the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to voice out concerns on humans’ rights abuses in the country. And PF faction secretary general Raphael Nakacinda has described the United Nations Human Rights Council’s report as an indictment on the church and civil society organisations in Zambia. On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Procedures demanded that Zambia halts, with immediate effect, the “downward spiral of infringements on fundamental freedoms”. Independent experts, working as Special Rapporteurs of the UN Human Rights Council, following their fact-finding mission on Zambia, released a statement, expressing concern about multiple allegations of arbitrary arrests and detentions on charges of unlawful...
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