- Title: Zimbabwe: Police, opposition supporters clash over protest ban
- Date: 16th August 2019
- Summary: HARARE, ZIMBABWE (AUGUST 16, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF RIOT POLICE MONITORING PROTESTERS POLICE WEARING RIOT GEAR, POLICE OFFICER HOLDING GUN VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SINGING AND DANCING ON THE STREET PROTESTER WITH WHISTLE PROTESTER HOLDING PLACARD READING (English): ''Zanu-PF is an obstacle to Zim's socio, political and economic development NB No to military economics.'' PROTESTERS ON STREET (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, NOBLE MAKONI, SAYING: "This demonstration for today, we want national dialogue not political dialogue so we are telling (Emmerson) Mnangagwa that please come and sit down for national dialogue with (Nelson) Chamisa." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DANCING (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, EDISON TINAGO, SAYING: "As the general people we have the power against the executive that is my hope to say this demonstration will actually bring that. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PROTESTER, PATIENCE GURURE, SAYING: "If we demonstrate peacefully we want change because we are tired of promises, promises, promises, we are tired enough is enough." POLICE VEHICLES WITH WATER CANNONS ARRIVING PROTESTER BEING ARRESTED, HIT WITH A BATON AND TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE PROTESTER RUNNING MEDIA AND PROTESTERS MOVING OUT OF WAY OF WATER CANNON WOMAN LAYING MOTIONLESS ON GROUND VARIOUS OF MAN RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR INJURIES INJURED MAN BEING PLACED INTO AN AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT POLICE VEHICLE PATROLLING CLEARED STREET
- Embargoed: 30th August 2019 10:56
- Keywords: Zimbabwe protests MDC Harare police
- Location: HARARE, ZIMBABWE
- City: HARARE, ZIMBABWE
- Country: Zimbabwe
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001ASGWM6F
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: More than a hundred opposition supporters chanted party slogans and sang in central Harare where a cancelled street protest had been set to assemble, but were chased away by baton-wielding police on Friday (August 16).
Zimbabwe's main opposition MDC party succumbed on to pressure from what it labelled a fascist government, calling off the street protest as armed police set up roadblocks and barred access to its Harare offices.
Friday's demonstration was to have been the first in a series planned by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which accuses the government of corruption and economic mismanagement.
Police late on Thursday (August 15) banned the Harare event and said anyone taking part would be committing a crime, and a High Court judge early on Friday dismissed an application by the party to overturn that ban.
Later on Friday, Zimbabwean police fired tear gas and beat up more than a 100 opposition supporters for defying the protest ban.
Demonstrators who were peacefully marching and singing in front of riot police told a Reuters witness that they want change and are tired of unfulfilled promises.
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