Zimbabwe: Mugabe agrees to free detainees
source: International Herald Tribune
The Associated Press
Published: February 25, 2009
HARARE, Zimbabwe: The prime minister in Zimbabwe’s new coalition government said Wednesday that President Robert Mugabe has agreed to free political prisoners, but the attorney general was “willfully obstructing” releases.
Morgan Tsvangirai, speaking at a news conference, said the detentions threatened the new unity government, as did abuses of the rule of law and Mugabe’s unilateral appointment of senior civil servants.
The coalition was formed almost two weeks ago after months of political deadlock kept leaders from addressing the world’s highest inflation rate, a widespread hunger crisis and a cholera epidemic that has sickened more than 80,000 people and killed more than 3,800 since August.
Tsvangirai is under increasing pressure from supporters who say it was a mistake to agree to govern alongside Mugabe, accused of ruining his country’s economy and its democracy over three decades in power.
While Tsvangirai stopped well short Wednesday of saying the [continue reading]
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