Abduction, torture of activists: Are Zimbabwe’s dark days back?

Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa speaks with journalists outside a hospital in Harare on May 15, 2020. PHOTO | AFP

Zimbabwean authorities are fighting an image-damaging incident in which three female opposition activists were reportedly pulled from a police station and tortured.

The three women had staged a protest against food shortages that had worsened by a six-week lockdown to fight the coronavirus.