Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said trade union leaders, who say they were severely assaulted by police after trying to stage a protest over wages, had defied authority and deserved the beating. A Harare magistrate has ordered a probe into charges that a dozen leaders of the main Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) were tortured and 'excessively and brutally' assaulted in detention after police stopped their September 13 demonstration. (New York Times, Monday)
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