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HARARE - Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested during anti-government protests on Friday, an AFP photographer saw.An AFP photographer saw them bundled into a truck full of police armed with AK-47 rifles and riot gear.
She was carrying placards calling for reforms and for the release of prominent journalist Hopewell Chin'ono, who was arrested last week under a government crackdown. Her arrest came days after her latest novel,"This Mournable Body," entered the long list for the Booker Prize.
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