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A leading organiser of today’s anti-government protests in Zimbabwe says armed men – some in police uniforms – beat him with irons bars and drove him to a remote location where they debated whether to kill him.
In an interview with the BBC’s Shingai Nyoka at a hospital in the capital, Harare, Patson Dzamara said his attackers eventually left him naked:
I then had to crawl to the road to find help but because I was naked it was not easy.”
Mr Dzamara said he was abducted after being with a group of people who were organising an anti-government protest for today in the capital, Harare.
As they were leaving Mufakose township at 01:00 this morning several vehicles cut them off, and he was then taken away and beaten up, he said.
Mr Dzamara added that he was “not discouraged” by what happened and would continue to campaign for a “new Zimbabwe”.
Mr Dzamara and other activists have called for a protest over a wide range of issues, including moves to introduce what the government calls bond notes because of a shortage of money.
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