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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A judge ruled police faked evidence against opposition activists accused of mounting a gasoline bombing campaign and freed them after five months in jail, the activists' lawyer said Thursday.
A day earlier, police assaulted scores of reform campaigners who staged a demonstration in Harare, victims said. Many were hospitalized, several with broken bones, according to witnesses and an independent victims care group.
The developments are the latest in a series of escalating run-ins between Zimbabwe's authoritarian government led by President Robert Mugabe and the country's increasingly vocal opposition.
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