Zimbabwe police prevent planned anti-government protests

‘Six people have been “abducted” in Zimbabwe as police prevented planned anti-government protests in the capital Harare and the second city of Bulawayo.
Civil action groups had earlier pledged to try to hold the first demonstration against the government of President Robert Mugabe in several weeks, but high security measures on Friday prevented such a protest action from taking place.
Sylvanos Mudzvova, one of the protest movement leaders, said that fellow activist Patson Dzamara and two others were transferred to the hospital after being kidnapped by unidentified men who dragged them out of their cars.’
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