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French police pre-emptively arrest Mugabe protestors

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday February 20, 2003 17:53author by Phuq Hedd

Guardian, Feb 20 2003

"It is a virtual police state in Paris. The police have told us that no further protest will be tolerated."

Britain (which has been complicit in the murder of Iraqis for a long time) has expressed concern that Mugabe has been invited into France for a meeting of African heads of state.

One of the arrested protestors is a Briton (Peter Tatchell) who has been campaigning against Mugabe on the basis of the UN Convention against Torture.

The protestors were detained for two hours after they emerged from a Metro station.

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