WORLD BRIEFING / ZIMBABWE
Times Wire Reports
A rights activist and 14 others were ordered freed on bail after Zimbabwe’s president and prime minister forced a judge to reverse her decision to return them to prison.
Harare Magistrate Catherine Chimanda ignited international outrage Tuesday by revoking bail for human rights advocate Jestina Mukoko and 17 others, saying prosecutors had formally charged them in a terrorism case. She refused to release three of them.
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