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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Farai Mutsaka

Election tensions rise in Zimbabwe after police bar opposition party from holding a rally

AP

Opposition party supporters in Zimbabwe chanted and sang freedom songs outside a courthouse Sunday following a decision to ban them from holding a rally six weeks before elections.

The court in the town of Bindura upheld Friday's police order that the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party could not hold the rally to officially launch its election campaign because the venue was unsuitable. The CCC had appealed in court against the order.

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