Scores arrested as riot police block anti-Mugabe rally
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Zimbabwean riot police thwarted a mass anti-government protest Sunday by rounding up dozens of opposition activists as veteran leader Robert Mugabe revealed ambitions for another term as president.
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Police in Zimbabwe banned demonstrations in parts of the capital of Harare on Wednesday in an effort to crack down on the opposition as the country's autocratic ruler celebrated his 83rd birthday by vowing to stay in power.
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The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition Movement for Democratic Change Morgan Tsvangirai was briefly detained by police on Wednesday ahead of a planned anti-government march, his lawyer said.
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Opponents of veteran Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have abandoned plans for a series of anti-government protests after the organisers were arrested in a police crackdown.
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Zambian police fired tear gas and arrested 70 opposition supporters in the capital on Sunday as President Levy Mwanawasa widened his lead in an election the main challenger has labeled a "conspiracy" to rig the vote.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than  200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a  meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an  opposition spokesman said.
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Zimbabwe police have dispersed opposition supporters outside the High Court as it prepares to rule in the treason trial of opposition leader
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Zimbabwe police arrested the leader of civic rights group Nation Constitutional Assembly (NCA) yesterday, his lawyer said. Lovemore Madhuku, last week organised a march to protest against a proposed law that
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Political standoff erupts into violence as police use live rounds and teargas to snuff out protest plans
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SANTIAGO -- Police used tear gas, water cannons, and clubs against demonstrators staging nationwide protests yesterday over government social and economic policies. More than 370 people were detained, officials said. About 50 protesters and 18 police officers were injured, none seriously. Senator Alejandro Navarro, who joined the demonstration against the government's free-market policies, was clubbed in the head by a ...
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Zimbabwean riot squads fired teargas and water cannon to drive stone-throwing protesters off the streets of a troubled township in Harare on Sunday after preventing the main opposition party from holding a major rally.
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Police detain Zimbabwe opposition leader and cancel permission for protest march
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Opponents of veteran Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have been forced to abandon plans for mass anti-government protests Wednesday after the organisers were rounded up in a police crackdown.
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The head of the election campaign team for Zimbabwe's main opposition party is arrested by police.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Feb. 28 -- Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday as pro-democracy activists defied a police ban on demonstrations and took to the streets to protest growing repression and economic hardship in Zimbabwe.
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Russian authorities pulled hundreds of opposition activists off buses and trains and detained them along with scores of others on Saturday ahead of a rare anti-government rally in Moscow, organizers said.
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Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds of protesters heeding an opposition call for a "million-man" rally that many fear could worsen the violence that already has killed 300 people