JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Police in Zimbabwe have released nearly 200 opposition supporters arrested during a weekend raid on their party headquarters, their lawyer said Monday. They were not charged with any crime.
Police on Saturday stormed the headquarters of the Movement for Democratic Change in the capital, Harare, and arrested 197 activists attending a meeting, many of them from the party's youth wing.
``They've all been released,'' lawyer Alec Muchadehama said by telephone. He said the party supporters were released in groups with the last 41 freed Sunday evening. ``Some of them were alleging they had been assaulted by police,'' Muchadehama said. |