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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe told Roman Catholic bishops who issued a letter blaming him for the country's political and economic turmoil they had chosen "a dangerous path," and church officials said Friday a priest had been briefly detained for passing the pastoral message on to his congregation.
The arrested priest and a member of his congregation were released without charge after spending 24 hours in jail last month, said Father Oskar Wermter of the Catholic social communications secretariat in Harare. It was the first reported arrest of a priest on political grounds in recent years.
Later on Friday, police arrested two prominent lawyers who have specialized in human rights issues, colleagues said.
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