Zimbabwe: 35 opposition leaders released, including Jameson Timba

A Zimbabwean court on Wednesday freed an opposition leader and 34 activists after handing them suspended prison sentences for taking part in what authorities called an unlawful assembly.

Magistrate Collet Ncube sentenced Jameson Timba, interim leader of a faction of the breakaway Citizens Coalition for Change party, to a two-year suspended prison sentence after he and the activists were detained for more than five months. The activists…