UPND has challenged the latest Human Rights Watch (HRW) report alleging widespread human rights violations in Zambia, arguing that the report presents allegations as established truths without independent verification. UPND Secretary General Batuke Imenda says the arrest or investigation of opposition figures does not automatically amount to political persecution, stressing that political affiliation does not confer immunity from the law. Imenda was responding to the HRW report alleging that Zambian police and military personnel forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily detained, beat and threatened opposition members, lawyers, journalists and government critics before and after the August 2026 general elections. The report further accused government of failing to credibly explain the killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya under what it described as contested circumstances. In a...