Zimbabwe police combed Harare's streets rounding up suspected opposition su...
HARARE - Zimbabwe police combed Harare’s streets rounding up suspected opposition supporters on Friday, enforcing a clampdown on dissent after using batons and water cannon to break up a protest that authorities had declared illegal.
Friday’s street demonstration was to have been the first in a nationwide series of protests organized by the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, which accuses President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government of state-sponsored violence, corruption and economic mismanagement. “The constitution guarantees the right to demonstration ... yet this fascist regime has denied and proscribed this right to the people of Zimbabwe,” MDC Vice President Tendai Biti told reporters outside the court.
The series of demonstrations has been viewed a high-profile test of Mnangagwa’s ability to tolerate dissent in a country tainted by a long history of repression. So far this year he has failed to make good on promises of political and economic reform. Days ahead of the planned Harare demonstration, six political activists were abducted from their homes at night and beaten by armed men, a coalition of rights groups said.
One woman was taken to hospital with a deep gash on her head after baton-wielding police charged at MDC supporters.
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