The Human Rights Commission calls for the compensation of the Family of the fourth year University of Zambia Student who died in a police operation to quell a protest by students on Thursday 4th October 2018.

The students were protesting the failure by government to pay them their meal allowances, saying that the last they received the allowances was weeks ago and that they were given about one thousand Five Hundred Kwacha Each.

HRC spokesperson Mweelwa Muleya has since advised that Students’ Unions must be restored immediately as a matter of respect for human rights, rule of law and constitutionalism.He says it is deeply regrettable that the Zambia Police Service has ignored the advice given by the Commission on 18th December 2017 after investigating a similar riot at the Copperbelt University to refrain from invading campus premises and smoking students out of their rooms using teargas.

He said this in a statement to Money FM News in Lusaka.