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MDC
president arrested
Crisis
in Zimbabwe Coalition
January 23, 2008
Today, 23 January 2008,
at 0400 hours, plain clothed police officers from Harare Central
police station, Law and Order section raided the home of the Movement
for Democratic Change (MDC) president Morgan Tsvangirai and arrested
him.
He was interrogated for
more than four hours before being released at around 0800 hours.
According to their lawyers, the police wanted assurance from the
MDC president that there will be no disturbances in Harare in light
of the party's proposed Freedom March, which is scheduled
to take place today.
At the time of his arrest,
the Israeli imported water cannons were spotted being deployed in
town and police trucks heading towards the high density suburb of
Highfields, where the MDC is supposed to address its supporters.
At 0915 hours, the Catalyst
team spotted standby armed riot police officers at the following
locations: Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) building; at the corner
of First Street/ Nelson Mandela Avenue; the Construction House and
at the corner Speke Avenue/ Park Lane.
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