MDC leadership and activists are being targeted. 12 Deaths,  78 gun wound victims, 5 MPs arrested, 9 Councilors arrested, 48 councilors and MPs in hiding and total of 1097 arrested members of the party

MDC Youth Assembly leaders Chairman Happymore Chidziva, his Secretary General Lovemore Chinoputsa and their entire Management Committee have had to seek safety from the wrath of the hit squads.

Many grassroots activists have been picked and tortured. ZANU PF seems to be planning a total annihilation of the MDC by eliminating all its key leaders using state machinery.

In 23/01/19 ZANU PF have stormed the house of our MDC Youth leader searching for him. They beat everyone in the house, children included, and firing bullets! 

On Tuesday 22 January 2019, people were indiscriminately attacked in the central business district, Glen Norah and Ruwa, an artist who released an anti-violence song was also brutalized and left for dead.

Arrests of the innocent people of Zimbabwe continues particularly known MDC activists, Members of Parliament, councilors , brutality is intensifying and individuals who have raised their voices against violence are being targeted.

The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) expresses great concern about recent events in Zembabwe and the continuing violation of human rights against IUSY member organization MDC-T and its mother party MDC.

We, Young socialists of IUSY stand with our Member Organization MDC-T of Zembabwe and its mother Party MDC in their fight against violation and oppression perpetrated by ZANU PF.

IUSY calls for the immediate release of all MDC prisoners who were detained in violation of low.

As young socialists; we call all parties in Zembabwe to sit together and use dialogue instead of confrontation, we aspire, that MDC and ZANU PF can focus into work together for all Zimbabweans.