UNITED KINGDOM: ANTI ZIMBABWE CAMPAIGNERS PROTEST AT START OF ENGLAND- ZIMBABWE CRICKET TEST

Record ID: 338015

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: ANTI ZIMBABWE CAMPAIGNERS PROTEST AT START OF ENGLAND- ZIMBABWE CRICKET TEST
  • Date: 22nd May 2003
  • Summary: LONDON, UK (MAY 22, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS OUTSIDE LORDS CRICKET GROUND 2. SPECTATORS ENTERING GROUND/ POLICE/ SECURITY CHECKS 3. SOUNDBITE (English) PROTEST SPOKESMAN PETER TATCHELL SAYS: "We don't believe there can be normal sporting relations with an abnormal regime that torture, rape and murder as weapon
  • Embargoed: 6th June 2003 13:00
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  • Location: LONDON, UK
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA4I8J5RDEIDB9OHP93VVQK9D0T
  • Story Text: Campaigners against Zimbabwean president Robert
    Mugabe's regime staged a protest at the start of the England
    versus Zimbabwe cricket test series in London.



    Demonstrators were outside Lords for the peaceful but
    noisy protest as spectators turned up for the first test, the
    start of which was delayed by rain.

    Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, leader of the
    "Stop The Tour" campaign said England should not be playing
    cricket against the representatives of a regime which used
    torture, rape and murder as weapons of political oppression.

    Mr Tatchell also criticised the Zimbabwean team selection,
    saying players who opposed Mugabe's government had been
    omitted and the team was "politically cleansed".

    Some 94 British MPs have signed a House of Commons motion
    opposing the tour and many of them had urged England to
    boycott its games in Zimbabwe during the World Cup earlier
    this year because of human rights abuses under the Mugabe
    regime.


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