Posted on 08/27/2002 3:13:35 AM PDT by Clive
Armed riot police this morning surrounded the central Harare offices of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change prior to a "massive" search by a large force of plainclothes members of the police and CIO.
Party officials in the offices in Harvest House were evicted from the building, and a room-by-room search was underway this morning. A spokesman for the MDC said he was not aware of any search warrant for the government's action.
Previous police operations against the party's offices have claimed variously to be searching for arms of war, subversive material, illegal communications equipment, and details of "illegal" party funding, but nothing taken away in previous raids has ever resulted in prosecution. Search warrants have been produced on some occasions and not on others.
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