Demo leaders abducted, brutalised

SCORES of activists were allegedly abducted and brutalised by suspected gun-totting State-sponsored militias before their vehicles were burnt to shells, hours before an anti-bond notes demonstration in Harare yesterday.

One of the activists and organiser of the demonstration, Patson Dzamara, was stripped naked and trodden before being dumped along the Harare-Bulawayo Highway.

Police also picked up human rights lawyer, Advocate Fadzayi Mahere, anti-President Robert Mugabe cleric, Phillip Mugadza, and 11 others.

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