HRF condemns the brutal state-sponsored violence that injured Zimbabwean opposition leader Lovemore Madhuku and members of his party. The attack comes amid a violent campaign of suppression against those opposed to the extension of the rule of dictator Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Sunday’s attack is one incident in a wider campaign of repression against critics of the constitutional amendment. In recent weeks, plainclothes agents suspected to be members of the security forces have abducted and beaten several of the regime’s political opponents, including NCA members Naboth Sirora and Innocent Taruona on Feb. 26 and Baird Gore of the Constitution Defenders Forum on Feb. 17.