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CIO launches campaign of intimidation against NGOs
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
October 25, 2007

Zimbabwe's notorious Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) is on a nationwide campaign of intimidation against civic society organizations ahead of next year's harmonized general election.

This week, the CIO's wing in the police, the Police Internal Security Intelligence (PISI) visited national and provincial offices of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) demanding information about the leadership of the organization.

PTUZ Secretary General, Raymond Majongwe yesterday said PISI agents visited their offices in Bulawayo and Harare demanding to know the addresses, phone numbers and other personal information about the leaders and workers of the union.

Majongwe said the security agents told him that they wanted to do public relations work for the organization as an arm of the state. He said they visited their offices in Bulawayo twice, on Monday and Wednesday and its headquarters in Harare yesterday requesting the same information.

Another civic organization which like the PTUZ is a member of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition was also called by an agent at Harare Central Police Station demanding information about the civic group's employees, board and the management committee.

In 2004, the government aborted the passing into law of the Non-Governmental Orgainsations Bill after national and international outcries against the intention to ban NGOs.

President Robert Mugabe did not sign the law despite the fact that it was passed into a Bill by Parliament.

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