[Sonke Gender Justice and MenEngage Africa] We are deeply concerned by the senseless police brutality and state-sanctioned violence in eSwatini. The eSwatini government's violent response to peaceful pro-democracy protests poses a threat to the fundamental right to life and infringes on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly enshrined in Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- to which Swaziland is a signatory.
