Zimbabwe: Police Bar Opposition From Court

5 April 2008
allAfrica.com

Police have stopped lawyers for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from entering the High Court in Harare, where they were scheduled to ask for an order that last week's presidential election results be released.

Three armed police officers barred two lawyers from entering the court building, Reuters news agency reported.

The Associated Press quoted one of the lawyers, Alec Muchadehama, as saying the police were commanded by an officer wearing a ruling party shirt. The officers told him they were summoning riot police.

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission took four days to release election results for the House of Assembly. By Saturday morning they not released all the Senate results.

There was no indication - seven days after the elections - when the commission planned to release the presidential results, hence the MDC court application.

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