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Crisis chairperson wins international human rights award
Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition
October 11, 2007

Mr. Arnold Tsunga, the Board Chairperson for Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has won the prestigious Human Rights Watch's Human Rights Defenders Award.

Mr. Tsunga was jointly announced the winner together with a fellow human rights lawyer, Mandira Sharma from Nepal, Human Rights Watch announced today, 11 October 2007.

The two human rights defenders will be honored at the 2007 Human Rights Watch annual dinners taking place in London, Munich, Hamburg, and Geneva. These two are putting up a fight to uphold the rule of law as it is a powerful weapon to tackle an abusive and exploitative government.

In awarding Mr. Tsunga and his colleague, the award, Human Rights said: "We are all inspired by the work of Mandira Sharma and Arnold Tsunga. They fight everyday to uphold the rule of law because they know it's the strongest weapon against abusive forces in government or out."

The Zimbabwean human rights lawyer, who heads the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, becomes the legit honoree because of his courage to stand for the oppressed against violent and oppressive state machinery.

Over the years, Mr. Tsunga faced arrests, intimidation, beatings and harassment by the state security agents for promoting, protecting and defending human rights of the poor, disadvantaged and oppressed Zimbabweans.

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