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Zambia: Catholics Deplore Homosexuality

22nd March 2011
THE Zambia Episcopal Conference (ZEC), the mother body of the Catholic Church in the country, has joined the many organisations that have condemned politicians and people campaigning for homosexuality, describing same-sex relationships as “seriously wrong and sinful.”
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Zambia: Zambia invites war crime suspect

9th December 2010
Zambia has been condemned by human rights groups after inviting Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes and genocide, to a conference next week.
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Zambia: Al-Bashir will not be arrested – government spokesperson

11th December 2010
Chief government spokesperson Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha has confirmed that the Zambian government will not execute an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against indicted Sudan President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.
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Zambia: Pressure mounts on Al-Bashir arrest, as ICC probes on

9th December 2010
Zambia’s compliance to international law will be under test next week as Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide committed in Darfur, is expected to attend a regional summit slated for December 15, in Lusaka.
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Zambia: Mogae urges govt not to criminalise homosexuality

19th October 2010
FORMER president of Botswana Festus Mogae has urged President Rupiah Banda’s government not to criminalise homosexuality and sex work because that would make the fight against HIV/AIDS difficult.
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Zambia: Human rights group condemns RB over Al-Bashir invite

7th December 2010
An official of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern that Zambian President Rupiah Banda has invited indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to participate in a regional conference scheduled for 15th December.
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Zambia: 'Defend Rights of HIV + People'

26th August 2010
ZAMBIA AIDS Law Research and Advocacy Network (ZARAN) has called on the legal fraternity in Zambia to use their legal skills to defend the poor who have been adversely infected with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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Zambia: High court rejects M’membe’s bid to cross-examine RB

10th July 2010
LUSAKA High Court Judge Charles Kajimanga on Friday granted Post editor Fred M’membe leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against his ruling that rejected the editor’s application to have President Rupiah Banda cross-examined in a contempt case.
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Zambia: Journo's demand reversal of ed's conviction

9th July 2010
Vienna - Journalists have urged Zambia's authorities to overturn the conviction of a newspaper editor in a case linked to a pornography trial for a photo of childbirth, media watchdog IPI said on Friday.
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Zambia: Misa's Report Malicious, Says Ronnie

29th September 2010
CHIEF Government spokesperson Ronnie Shikapwasha has said the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) allegation that his ministry is the most secretive is out of malice and ill will against the Government.
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Zambia: Judges’ increase to improve justice delivery

30th September 2010
JUSTICE delayed is justice denied. The dispensation of justice to suspects is one key issue that human rights groups world-over look up to.
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Zambia: Zambian public institutions operating in secrecy – MISA Zambia

29th September 2010
ZAMBIAN public institutions operate in secrecy with a near 100 per cent failure to respond to citizens’ requests for information, a study conducted by the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has revealed.
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Zambia: Secrecy at information ministry confirms need for FoI Act - PAZA

28th September 2010
THE Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services being ranked the most secretive public institution confirms the need for the enactment of the Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill, Press Association of Zambia (PAZA), vice-president Amos Chanda has said.
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Zambia: Torture in Zambian prisons

7th September 2010
Human Rights Watch (HRW) painted a damning picture of conditions in Zambian prisons, saying detainees were routinely tortured and subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment at the hands of police.
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Zambia: Prison warders harass Post photojournalist Nsama, grab camera

8th September 2010
PRISON warders yesterday picked up Post photojournalist Thomas Nsama, accusing him of espionage and deleted photographs from his camera.
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Zambia: IPI General Assembly urges govt to accept ZAMEC

17th September 2010
THE International Press Institute (IPI) has asked the government to accept the Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) and refrain from pushing for statutory regulation of the media.
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Zambia: Lawyer asks Supreme Court to declare death sentence unconstitutional

11th September 2010
THE Supreme Court has been asked to declare as unconstitutional a section in the Zambian Constitution that provides that anyone convicted for aggravated robbery while armed with a firearm should be given a mandatory death sentence.
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ZAMBIA: Media Face Beatings and Attacks

11th November 2009
LUSAKA - When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president’s return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopping it, it seemed to be the last straw in the victimisation of the media. But it was not.
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Summary of Zambian HIV Discrimination in Military Case

18th May 2009
Summary of Zambian HIV Discrimination in Military Case
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SALC News Release: Zambian High Court to Hear Groundbreaking HIV Case

19th May 2009
SALC News Release: Zambian High Court to Hear Groundbreaking HIV Case
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Zambia: Editor of Private Daily Charged with Contempt of Court

4th June 2010
A court in the Zambian capital Lusaka charged the news editor of local Post Newspaper with contempt of court for running a story on the trial of a journalist accused of pornography over a picture showing a woman in childbirth.
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Zambia: Zambian Editor Bailed

8th June 2010
Lusaka - The editor of Zambia's only private daily newspaper was granted 000 bail on Monday, pending an appeal of his conviction in a case linked to a pornography trial over a photo of childbirth.
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Zambia: Zambian president challenged over violation of freedom of speech

11th June 2010
The Zambian courts are defying the regional and international guarantees of freedom of expression that Zambia has signed, Zambian President Rupiah Banda has been told. This follows the conviction and imprisonment of the editor of the Zambian Post, Fred M’mbembe, on Friday June 4.
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Zambia: Rwandan Genocide Suspects in Zambia: A Call for Justice

5th May 2010
[London/Kigali/Johannesburg, 5 May 2010] African Rights, REDRESS and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre have sent a confidential report to President Rupiah Banda of Zambia detailing the names and roles of 16 key suspects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda who are believed to be living in Zambia.
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Zambia: State committed to information flow

3rd May 2010
GOVERNMENT remains committed to ensuring that information is made available to the media who facilitate dialogue between the Government and the public. Speaking when she launched the World Press Freedom Day in Lusaka yesterday acting Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services and Chief Government spokesperson Dora Siliya said the facilitation of dialogue was done through policy formulation and implementation of programmes.
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Zambia: Channel Funds to Projects, Not Gay Rights, Donors Urged

7th May 2010
NORTHMEAD Assemblies of God Bishop Joshua Banda has advised the donor community to channel their funds to development programmes rather than supporting practises such as homosexuality that are alien to the Zambian society.
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Zambia: Zambia's TB-ridden prisons

27th April 2010
Suspected TB prevalence rates in Zambian prisons are very high, but testing is minimal. Photograph: Mackson Wasamunu/AFP/Getty Images
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Press Release: ZAMBIAN HIGH COURT FINDS MANDATORY HIV TESTING BY MILITARY UNCONSTITUTIONAL

27th May 2010
Today, the Livingstone High Court held that the Zambian Air Force’s decision to mandatorily subject Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole to an HIV test violated their rights to privacy and to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment under the Zambian Constitution. The Court further awarded them damages for the violation to their constitutional rights.
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Zambia: Zambia court awards damages in HIV screening test case

27th May 2010
Two ex-officers in Zambia's air force have been awarded damages following claims they were tested and treated for HIV without their knowledge. The men had claimed they were fired for being HIV-positive, but the court decided not to reinstate them. Mandatory HIV screening is not legal in the military, and the government had denied the two men were tested.
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