Zimbabwe police crush prayer rally, seize leaders
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Zimbabwean riot police arrested the  country's top opposition leader on Sunday as they crushed a  planned prayer rally in a crackdown on protests against  President Robert Mugabe.
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ISTANBUL The police on Sunday clashed with hundreds of rock-throwing nationalists who staged a protest outside the seat of the spiritual leader of the world&#39;s Orthodox Christians.
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Zimbabwean police have vowed to block an anti-government rally planned in Harare by a coalition of opposition and rights groups on Sunday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 23 -- Zimbabwean police dispersed hundreds of opposition demonstrators with tear gas Wednesday afternoon in the first major test of reforms that were supposed to guarantee political freedom in one of Africa's most repressive nations.
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The United States called Sunday for the immediate release of Zimbabwean opposition leaders detained after riot police thwarted a planned mass protest against President Robert Mugabe's government.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 11 -- Zimbabwean police cracked down on a major anti-government rally near Harare on Sunday morning, shooting to death one activist and arresting dozens of others, including several of the country's most prominent opposition leaders, according to news reports.
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Police detain Zimbabwe opposition leader and cancel permission for protest march
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwean riot squads fired teargas and water cannon to drive stone-throwing protesters off the streets of a troubled township in Harare yesterday after preventing the main opposition party from holding a major rally.
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Police in Johannesburg raid a church and arrest some 1,500 homeless people and Zimbabwean refugees.
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Heavily armed police killed a protester and arrested the leader of the main opposition party as they broke up a prayer meeting protesting government policies Sunday.
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(CNN) -- Police in Zimbabwe rounded up more than 200 members of the political opposition Saturday, according to a spokesman for the southern African nation's main opposition movement.
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JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwean police yesterday arrested 20 supporters of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai after he was cleared of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe, although most were later released, an opposition party official said.
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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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The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and about 50 other democracy activists &#151; many of them bandaged and bruised &#151; appeared in court Tuesday, two days after they were arrested for trying to attending a prayer meeting.
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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. The demonstration coincided with a bleak new warning by the head of the Zimbabwe state central bank that the nation is broke and using foreign currency needed for fuel and spare parts on food.
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Nigerian police arrest the leader of a Muslim Shia sect and 100 of his followers after clashes in the northern city of Sokoto.
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Riot police used water cannons and tear gas Friday to break up a demonstration by hundreds of rock-throwing protesters before more than 20,000 people marched to vent their anger at Pacific Rim leaders, particularly President Bush.