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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's most prominent opposition leader was seriously injured — with deep gashes on his head and shoulders — from beatings and torture by police who broke up a public meeting that had been declared illegal, colleagues said Monday.
Morgan Tsvangirai, head of the Movement for Democratic Change, was in a suburban jail, said his wife, Susan, who was allowed to visit a day after he was detained at Sunday's meeting of the "Save Zimbabwe Campaign." She said some of her husband's wounds had been sutured and heavily bandaged, and one eye was badly swollen.
Lawyers said at least five other opposition, anti-government and civic leaders were among scores of people arrested in the latest crackdown on dissent by President Robert Mugabe's security forces and political supporters.
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