Arrest of Zimbabwe's opposition leader

The leader of the opposition MDC in Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been arrested along with colleagues at a prayer meeting in Harare.
(BBC New Online).

Personally, I find that the most disturbing aspect of the situation is this -

A spokesman for the MDC, Eliphas Mukonoweshuro, said the protesters were not doing anything wrong.

"It was not a political rally, therefore it was not subject to the provisions of the public order and security act, and there was no permission required to be obtained from the police," he told the BBC.

"But the police went ahead and arrested a broad cross section of leaders of civic organisations, political parties, labour and students."

Admittedly, Zimbabwe has been in a horrific state of affairs for many years. However, no matter how many times that such suppression of Mugabe's opponents occurs, each new event still shocks and appalls me. In this matter, Mugabe's thugs appear to be breaking even their own oppressive laws in order to silence anything deemed to be dissent.

Morgan Tsvangirai is a very brave man, and I admire him and his colleagues immensely for refusing to give in to governmental pressure in their struggle to bring democracy to Zimbabwe.