Four human rights activists held in Zimbabwe : lawyers

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Authorities in Zimbabwe have reportedly detained four human rights campaigners on their return home.

An aircraft of Royal Dutch Airlines KLM is parked upon arrival to the Harare International Airport as the company resumed flights between Harare and Amsterdam, 13 years after it stopped plying the route, on October 30, 2012.ZIMBABWE - Authorities in Zimbabwe have detained four human rights campaigners on their return home from a foreign trip and seized their cellphones and laptops, lawyers said Tuesday.

The men arrested late Monday were identified as George Makoni, 38, advocacy officer for the NGO Centre for Community Development Zimbabwe; Tatenda Mombeyarara, 37, co-ordinator for lobby group Citizens Manifesto; Gamuchirai Mukura, 31, executive director of Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development ; and Nyasha Mpahlo, 35, governance officer at Transparency International Zimbabwe.

Their arrest came days after state-owned daily The Herald ran a story claiming that"a group of shady organisations with links to the MDC-Alliance has been hard at work laying the groundwork for civil unrest to be unleashed next month." The paper also claimed that some members of the Movement for Democratic Change had earlier this month attended a workshop in Prague.

 

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