HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police on Thursday used batons to break up a courthouse protest by opposition supporters, angered by the continued detention of dozens of activists arrested in mid-June, after they allegedly gathered without official police clearance.
Dozens of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change supporters had gathered at the magistrates’ court in the capital, Harare, and broke into protest songs and chants demanding freedom for 78 activists who had been denied bail by a magistrate.
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