Zimbabwe: Court Throws Out Anti-Mphoko Demonstration Case - Frees Activists

HARARE magistrate Josephine Sande, on Monday, dismissed a case in which the State wanted to prosecute Zimbabwe Activists Alliance leader Lynette Mudewe and three pro-democracy youths.

The state wanted to prosecute the four activists for, "planning to demonstrate" against Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's stay at Harare's Rainbow Towers Hotel.

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