IPOD member parties, including NRM, condemn security brutality during election campaigns

According to the Daily Monitor, leaders of parties in the Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue, including DP, NRM, UPC, PPP and JEEMA, issued a joint condemnation of brutality and intimidation by security agencies during campaigns. IPOD Council chairman Dr Gerald Siranda also urged candidates and agents not to provoke security officers, and NRM's Richard Todwong called on supporters to refrain from violence.