Zimbabwe Rebel Opposition Leader Freed on Bail

Arthur Mutambara, leader of the small faction of Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change party, was on Tuesday granted bail in a case in which he is facing charges of publishing falsehoods and contempt of court against the government of President Robert Mugabe.
Mutambara was arrested on Sunday at his Harare home on allegations he published an article critical of Mugabe.

In the April 19 opinion piece published in the privately owned weekly, The Standard, Mutambara criticized Mugabe for his handling of Zimbabwe’s disputed general elections held on March 29.

He also accused Mugabe of running down Zimbabwe’s economy and charged that state security forces had committed human rights abuses in the country.

The Standard’s editor, Davison Maruziva, was last month arrested over the same article but is out on bail now.

Source African Press Agency

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