Riot poilce stand before striking healthcare workers protesting over the disappearance of Peter Magombeyi, the leader of their union, outside a hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe, September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo
HARARE (Reuters) - A court in Zimbabwe ruled on Thursday that police should not interfere with a march planned by striking doctors to protest against the disappearance of the leader of their union, after law enforcement agents blocked two previous demonstrations.
The doctors had sought to march to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offices and parliament to present petitions after Peter Magombeyi, the leader of the Zimbabwe Hospitals Doctors Association, went missing.
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