Zimbabwe Police Arrest MDC Party Official

Jestina Mukoko, head of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, and supporters of opposition MDC walk past the gate to the Magistrates court in Harare

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Brian James, the mayor of the city of Mutare, was arrested.

Another official of Zimbabwe's MDC, which has just formed a unity cabinet with President Robert Mugabe, has been arrested, the party said in a statement on Saturday, raising political tensions.

Brian James, the mayor of the city of Mutare, was arrested at the same police station where senior MDC official Roy Bennett, who has been charged with treason, is being held, it said.

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