Arnold Tsunga

Arnold Tsunga is the Director of the Africa Regional Programme of the International Commission of Jurists, as well as the Executive Director of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and the acting Executive Secretary of the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ).He served as a Humphrey Fellow at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.

The Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights is a human rights organization that provides legal representation to victims of human rights abuses and also defends human rights defenders who are arrested and detained in Zimbabwe. Tsunga has helped document human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and brought them to the attention of the international community. The ZLR now plays a major role in defending against sustained attacks on the rule of law and human rights in Zimbabwe and in the struggle against impunity in the Southern African region.

He faced criminal charges of broadcasting on the radio without a license and went to on trial on September 25, 2006, in Zimbabwe. The judge dismissed the case after the government sought a continuance.

In 2006, he was awarded the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders and he was honered as a a Human Rights Defender in 2006 by Human Rights Watch.

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* [http://www.protectionline.org/spip.php?article395 Interview with Arnold Tsunga]
* [http://www.martinennalsaward.org/index.html Martin Ennals Award]
* http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/10/13/zimbab14385.htm
* [http://www.icj.org//news.php3?id_article=4018&lang=en International Commission of Jurists Press Release on Tsunga Trial]
* [http://www.icj.org/news.php3?id_article=4238&lang=en International Commission of Jurists Press Release on appointment of Arnold Tsunga]