Zimbabwe authorities arrest opposition leader Tendai Biti
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – A Zimbabwean lawyer says that senior opposition official Tendai Biti has been arrested.
Nqobizitha Mlilo, the lawyer, said Biti was arrested Wednesday while trying to cross into Zambia. He said more details would be released later.
Biti, who was finance minister in a coalition government from 2009 to 2013, is part of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, which has denounced as fraud last week’s election win of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The MDC has said it will challenge the election results in court.
Last week Biti declared, before official election results were announced, that opposition leader Nelson Chamisa had won the vote, a claim also made by Chamisa himself.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission said it is illegal to announce results before its own official pronouncement.
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