HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A judge ruled police faked evidence against opposition activists accused of mounting a gasoline bombing campaign and freed them after five months in jail, the activists' lawyer said Thursday.| Mildly surprised about this: there's a judge in Bob-land who hasn't yet knuckled under? |
He also said two men police had called key witnesses were ``fictitious persons.''
Muchadehama said Kamocha would still consider release applications for two other activists held on charges of allegedly recruiting pro-democracy militants for terror attacks.
No comment was immediately available from police or the government.
Defense attorneys Muchahedama and Andrew Makoni were arrested earlier after they described evidence as faked. Their arrests led to a protest organized by the Zimbabwe Law Society outside the Harare High Court in May. Police declared the lawyers' protest illegal and injured a number of lawyers while breaking it up.
Muchadehama said 34 opposition activists detained since March were linked to a series of fire bombings of police stations, a store owned by a ruling party official and a train. Four police were said to have been injured in the bombings, which the government described as an ``orgy of terror'' and blamed the opposition.