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Amnesty International allegations against Zambia false -Malupenga

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The government has refuted the contents of the report released by Amnesty International alleging that the Zambian people are being ruled by fear and repression.

This is contained in a statement issued to the media, by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services, Permanent Secretary, Amos Malupenga.

He says the government of the Republic of Zambia categorically disputes the alleged findings of Amnesty International that the government restricts freedom of expression, association, and assembly.

Mr. Malupenga said Contrary to the assertion made by Amnesty International in its 2021 Report on Zambia, a vibrant civil society exists in Zambia, alongside a thriving independent media and an impartial judiciary that protects civil liberties and checks any possible excesses of the Executive.

He said the people of Zambia are free to criticise public officials, while opposition parties are allowed to conduct public meetings in accordance with the law and the public health guidelines due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mr Malupenga stressed that health guidelines are not unique to Zambia and it is, therefore, not true that people who engage in these activities are arrested for merely engaging in such.

“The alleged findings that many people have been arrested for exercising their right to freedom of expression, opposition parties, and civil society organizations have been prevented from holding peaceful public assemblies and that the critical media outlets have been shut down are false,” he added.

“Even the assertions that several associations such as trade unions and political parties have had their certificates of a registration canceled and that a number of people have lost their lives often at the hands of the police, with few consequences for those suspected to be responsible, are out of context and should be disregarded, Mr. Malupenga said.”

He explained that the Zambian Government respects human rights and does everything within the confines of the law and that all the people who have been named in the report have been reasonably suspected to have broken the law and the due course of the law has been applied to ensure justice prevails.

Mr Malupenga has father assured the Zambian citizens and the international community that there is no cause for alarm and that the Government and its leadership is doing everything possible to ensure the country holds free and fair elections on August 12th, 2021.

The government has since urged the Zambian people to remain calm and understand that it is not unusual for some organizations like Amnesty International to cause panic when they anticipate that an election outcome is not likely to suit their preferences.

46 COMMENTS

  1. The joke is on you bwana…
    Now you are running like headless chickens…. who in New York, London, Paris…. is going to believe you?

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  2. @1 So your concern is that those in the countries you’ve named will not believe in our Govt ? You’re so mindful about how they think about us. Are they really that important that we should live to impress them? As for me l’ m concerned about the inferiority complex of some Zambians abroad no wonder they support HH who is constantly attacking his country in the foreign land.

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  3. MALUPENGA WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE REMEMBER THAT DAY I TOLD YOU OFF WHEN YOU HAD SAID BAD THINGS TO SATA
    WHO TODAY YOU ARE EATING FROM HIS WORK AND OUR VOTE FOR HIM. REALLY SAD , ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LIVE WITH US HERE VIA THEIR EMBASSIES AND AGENCIES . BUT ALSO WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AND ICTs THE WHOLE WORLD UNDERSTANDS ALL EVEN BEFORE THESEREPORTS ARE MADE .

    IAM ALSO HAPPY TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE CHANGING GOVERNMENT , NOW YOU ARE EVEN USING KK’S FUNERAL AND ALL YOU CAN TO CAMPAIGN , NO THIRD TERM AT ALL AND NO VISIONLESS LEADERSHIP ANY MORE , KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN A VOTE OF PF SINCE ITS INCEPTION , BUT NOW WITH ALL I INFLUENCY COUNTRY WIDE VOTING FOR HH AND THE UPND

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  4. @2
    Why do you go to borrow money from them and ask for medicines (coronavirus) when you still want to live like cave men????

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  5. @2 The money you borrow comes from New York, London, Paris… live by those standards. The stone age ended many hundreds of years ago.

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  6. @2 Are you so blind that you do not see people being killed in Zambia or you just prefer to be S.TUPID

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  7. This prick lungu was he not long ago use the phrase I will crush you like a tonne of bricks.

    Since the truth is now in the open, they want to deny it just like how much wealth convict lungu has accumulated before ascending to power

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  8. This PS is completely out of touch, doesn’t he know that even before covid , opposition parties were always denied the freedom to assemble

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  9. This guy Amos is f000l.. We have read the Amnesty reports, it is very accurate. The report says even civil servants walk with intimidation. Look at that idyott Kambwili, it went back to eat vomit because of fear of PF government to send it to jail. The sucker was an upcoming good opposition leader to HH.
    Don’t go far, report is about this, even Amos Malupenga is forced to go on camera by PF cadres to denounce Amnesty International.

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  10. The Police officers who killed innocent, defenceless and un armed youths in the name of Mapenzi Chibulo, Vespers Shimuzhila and Frank Mugala are still enjoying themselves, have never been sought and are being as usual being paid their salaries by the Zambian tax payer. Business as usual

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  11. Those neo imperialists disguised under amnesty are after our gold and oil. The coon hh has promised them concessions if he wins. The good thing is that Zambians will never let him sell our resources again for peanuts

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  12. The public media especially the moribund, immature and unprofessional ZNBC has blacked out all opposition parties from their channels and to this PS, it is normal. Very sad, Dr Kaunda did his best to put this country to where he left it, we have just destroyed it on our on

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  13. An interested government worker on government pay roll is the one defending government against a very independent Amnesty international report. Unbelivable

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  14. its not even a question of humble education, it is just lack wisdom, how do you refute things which people witness every day, that is why having wisdom is very important. Which opposition could be given a permit, a mandate which police don’t even have, was a ever given a permit. God is seeing you

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  15. The way PF has lowered governance standards is just beyond comprehension, even some diplomats have started talking, but these chaps with earbuds are in complete denial that governance is at its lowest ebb. Anyway time to vacate is imminent

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  16. Presidents Kaunda, Chiluba, Mwanawasa ,Rupiah Banda and Sata allowed the opposition to mobilise, hats off to these real democrats, real leaders. Thank you very much for leaving us such legacies. Today our country is spoiled by the current politicians

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  17. Mwalupenga cannot dispute that Nsama Nsama and Joseph Kaunda were shot and killed in cold blood by ZPS. The Commander in Chief of ZPS and the Armed Forces is ECL and he is therefore responsible for those deaths. The Amnesty International Report is factual and details the extra judicial killings by the PF Govt. Even now we know the banning of the Rallies and Road Shows has nothing to do with Covid-19 Management but has everything to do with the PF Govt Ruling with fear and Repression. No Rallies, No Road Shows and no access to ZNBC and State Media by the Opposition Parties. With this situation Mwalupenga expects the International Monitors and Observers invited by the Zambian Govt to observe these Elections by going Door to Door?Is this what Mwalupenga calls free,fair and credible…

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  18. It’s actually HH and his minions in corrupt Civil society grouping he sponsors who are perverts and enemies to the Zambia.

    It seems they will lie to all international media, organisations and freinds in financial institutions to cripple this Country unless only HH becomes President.

    This dangerous. We are hearding in a very dangerous direction. We made a wrong turn.

    We shall leave to regret what these people are doing to this Country. These lies are leaving terribly indelible marks on this Country.

    They are concocting lies against the state without remorse. This is dangerous.

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  19. Amnesty international and transparency international are just an imperialist tools that serve a western agenda of hack jobs to further their western interests. They are quiet on the racial injustice in the US and the extrajudicial killing of black men. They are silent about western country’s arms sales to Saudi Arabia that has caused the worst humanitarian crisis ever. They are quiet about western countries Harding vaccines. Yet busy casting Africa for the most part as failed corrupt states.

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  20. Has Amnesty International submitted any such report about the multiple people of color maimed by police in USA?

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  21. Look at the ignorant PF rats above calling AI a tool used by the west for takeover of zambia…….

    If those imaginary western imperialists ever had any desire for regime change,
    , Don’t you think it would be easier for the West to take over zambia by simply withholding donner aid ……….zambias health case system depends on western donner aid , without which it would collapse in 3 months leading to the downfall of lungu and his regime…….

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  22. Anyway these are going on August 12, not sure why they even sent him to date the media to rebut things that everybody sees daily, the agony of being sent to say things that you don’t even believe in, feeling sorry for the man

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  23. Let’s name and shame these criminals by send all videos to Amnesty International, Human Rights Commission … Including this one
    Watch “Condemned PF over Community Radio Station.” on YouTube

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  24. Bloomberg lied that in Zambia, Konkola Copper Mine is closed for lack of funding and imminent arbitration. It was later proved that the foreign media was lying and later forced to apologise.
    Meanwhile some Zambians believed in the news and scorned the government.

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  25. As usual burrying their heads in the sand and always in denial . The worst government ever full of excuses, failing to work they will blame climate, drought, HH and now covid. Not even sure why they want to argue, compare the economic stats MMD left us with and now. This is a no contest, even immediate past Bank of Zambia governor mentioned that the decline started even before covid. How do you fail both the economy and governance

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  26. Self hate…i see alot of House Negroes and Uncle Toms in UPND…HH himself is a house negro and an uncle Tom…anything a white man says they believe but they don’t believe in their own brothers….shame…no wonder the majority of UPND are in the diaspora and they don’t vote but they still expect their chief house Negroo HH to win elections…how possible is that

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  27. I will only accept AI as an international and credible organisation if they produce a report on the injustices in USA, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea etc. They can’t be selective in defining the meaning of democracy and good governance. To those who say because we borrow money from USA and other developed countries we should accept what AI is writing whether its true or not. Does that imply if I lend you money then I immediately get rights to lie against you? Just because you borrowed money from me I be free to call a thief and all sorts of names? Which government on earth has no debt? If African television networks were to start doing what CNN and BBC do to target the negative happenings in these developed countries people would be shocked what they would see and hear.

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  28. Some Western organisations have compromised the truth before about Zambia, it is possible that they have lied again with the intended purpose and result.

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  29. UPND is full of house Negrooos…and uncle Tom s…HH is a chief house Negrooo….self hate…UPND supporters hate Zambia and they’re very unpatriotic

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  30. Yesterday the Prime Minister of Canada asked the Pope to come to Canada and apologise for the mass killing of children in residential schools ran by the Catholic church about over 30 years ago. Mass graves were discovered in British Columbia of about 500 children and later another 700 mass graves in another province in Canada. If this was in Africa CNN and BBC and Aljezera will be all over. In USA homicide rates have gone through the roof, gun violence deaths are higher than what Boko Aramu kills(Not justifying Boko Aramu). Yes their pockets of political violence in Zambia done by stupid citizens who can’t use their brains properly because they want to die for ECL or HH who if wins only their children will be enjoying free tax payers money.

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  31. This government crashes you like a ton of bricks. Just ask GBM and Kambwili. They found out that they could not do any business in Zambia outside of the Patriotic Front. So they were forced to rejoin. This lack of rights unless you belong to PF is what Amnesty International and other rights fighters are asking for. People must be free to have political affiliations that are not ruling party’s.
    The IBA must be abolished because it is the PF’s weapon against freedom of speech. Also PSs must not be appointed by Presidents. They must be civil servants who have risen through the ranks not political appointees. That is one party state mentality

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  32. Do you think a chikanda seller even knows Amnesty International?? Or the factory worker in Chinika?? Or the charcoal burner in Serenje?? Those are the voters who will vote based on what they see around them. Spaka, engineer and other upnd donkeys won’t even be here on 12th August. Beware and vote wisely.

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  33. @Zambian citizen I can’t believe you just said that….bro you need a medical check up….in KK’s time there were UNIP vigilantes in townships and cities across the country. Their job was to intimidate the citizenry by whatever means……arrest you by ‘air’ style they used to call it, but when people came to full knowledge that UNIP and KK had turned dictators, that was the beginning of the end of the MIGHTY UNIP. So PF your time is clearly up. People have made up their minds including those in the villages.

  34. What can u expect this PF Cadre to say? In fact whatever Mwalupenga says just know the Opposite is true. The Amnesty International Report is factual and details a list of Extra Judicial Judicial killings which Mwalupenga cannot dispute. Its true this ECL Govt Rules based on fears and Repression. On August 12 Zambians must vote out of Power this Violent and Oppressive ECL Govt.

  35. Who can even believe that Amos was once at The Post? He is now fat. When one gets fat, the eyes become blind due to sugar.

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  36. The report is pot on. we have seen the killings without any justice served. start with the gassing, a schoolboy Frank mugala, a university student vespers mushipa, the UPND cadre called Gadaffi, the NDC youth chairman hacked in the by elections for the Roan seat in luanshya, mapenzi chibulo, and the current killing of a prosecutor and a UPND cadre. People like kabwili and GBM are just spineless cowwards who should never be accorded any platform of power in Zambia.

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  37. Yes PSs must not be appointed by Presidents. They must be civil servants, but which opposition has ever spoken against this malpractice? None because they are eyeing doing the same. They all want to bomba mwibala

  38. True PSs must not be appointed by Presidents. They must be civil servants, but which opposition has ever spoken against this malpractice? None because they are eyeing doing the same. They all want to bomba mwibala

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