In Zimbabwe, Covid-19 provides a cover for human rights abuses.

HUMAN rights violations; POLITICAL violence; COVID-19 pandemic; HUMAN rights; VIOLENCE prevention; ZIMBABWEAN politics & government

The article reports on the alleged use by government forces in Zimbabwe of the COVID-19 pandemic to hide state-sponsored political violence and human rights abuses in the country. Also cited are the criticism by German Jesuit priest Oskar Wermter on the lack of respect to human rights in the country, and the appeal by groups like the Law Society of Zimbabwe for the probe and prosecution of all cases of violence in the country.