Leading members of the Zimbabwe opposition are reported being hunted by police.
The country’s police unit has mounted a search for these activists for inciting their members to protest last week.
The opposition MDC supporters were disputing the presidential election results which confirmed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as winner.
Police are now searching for nine senior officials of the opposition MDC Alliance with a warrant issued for them.
On Tuesday 27 supporters of the opposition were freed by a court. Their lawyers have now succeeded with a bail application which was earlier denied.
They were arrested last week following the eruption of violence leading to the death of six people.
Soldiers reportedly shot into the protesters resulting in the deaths. But prosecutors claim the protesters were to blame for the deaths.
Lawyers for the accused have argued that some of them had nothing to do with the protest.
Over the weekend these supporters were denied bail but on Tuesday a Magistrate court granted $50 bail to each of them.
An MDC lawyer Denford Halimani said after the hearing that “The court has indicated that it did not consider any of them to be a flight risk. The judgment was so brilliant that we are still trying to process it.”
Meanwhile the leadership of the Zimbabwe opposition says some of its activists are still missing.
The party’s spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda alleges that abductions and raids have taken place.
He said these are acts intended to intimidate the MDC from challenging the elections results.
Source: Africafeeds.com
