Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Nelson Chamisa said at a news
conference that the official was stopped on her way to party headquarters
early Tuesday and beaten by four armed men who said they wanted to arrest
her. He said the men were militants from President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF
party. The men fled when a crowd gathered.
The party also has received reports from rural areas of attacks on its
supporters, Chamisa said. He also cited a weekend police raid of a house
used by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's supporters as part of a campaign
of violence and intimidation.
"We expect this to increase and escalate on a national level," Chamisa said
at a news conference. "We take this very seriously. We are possibly on the
brink of another storm of persecution and intimidation."
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