Tsvangirai 'fighting for life'
2007-03-12 19:13
Special Report
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A dusty road leads to the village of Wedza, where veterans of Zimbabwe's liberation war eke out a meagre living on their farm cooperative, which after a promising start now brings only despair.
Harare - Zimbabwe's chief opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has been left fighting for his life after being brutally beaten in police custody, said his second-in-command, said his deputy on Monday.
Thokozani Khupe, deputy head of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said: "As of now, president Tsvangirai is battling for his life at Borrowdale police station after he was brutally assaulted."
Khupe, who has not herself seen Tsvangarai since his arrest on Sunday, said the MDC leader lost consciousness three times while at Machipisa police station, close to the site of a planned rally which was crushed by the security forces.
Tsvangirai's lawyer Innocent Chagonda, who visited his client in custody earlier in the day, refused to discuss his condition when contacted for comment on the allegations.
- SAPA