The National Association of Youth Organisations In Zimbabwe has occupied the Africa Unity square where they are demonstrating against the “shrinking civic space” in the country. One of the placards lifted in the pictures below reads:written
Freedoms:
- Association
- Assembly
- Expression
- Freedom to Demonstrate and Petition.
The demonstration follows a stern warning by the government against protests which are viewed by authorities as seeking to unseat the incumbent government.
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