Zimbabwe: Mutambara Released

20 March 2007

MDC faction leader Professor Arthur Mutambara, who was arrested at the Harare International Airport at the weekend as he tried to leave the country, was yesterday freed after the High Court ordered the police to release him.

Police arrested Prof Mutambara on Saturday and kept him in custody at Harare Central Police Station saying he could not leave Zimbabwe because he has a case still pending at the courts.

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