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| Zimbabwe human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko has been ordered back to jail for plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe, her lawyer said. | Zimbabwe human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko has been ordered back to jail for plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe, her lawyer said. |
| Ms Mukoko is among 18 leading activists to be detained, a move likely to spark new tensions in the unity government. | Ms Mukoko is among 18 leading activists to be detained, a move likely to spark new tensions in the unity government. |
| The activists say they were tortured into confessing to plans to remove President Mugabe from power. | The activists say they were tortured into confessing to plans to remove President Mugabe from power. |
| They were freed on bail only two months ago, but a judge ordered them back into custody pending a hearing next month. | |
| Torture claims | |
| Magistrate Catherine Chimanda in Harare said she was revoking bail because a formal indictment had been filed a day earlier. | |
| It accuses Ms Mukoko and the others of sabotage, terrorism and banditry. | |
| The suspects - who include several Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) members - were detained in December for three months. | |
| They were charged with attempting to overthrow Mr Mugabe's government and replace it with one headed by the new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who is also MDC leader. | |
| Some had fallen ill and were put under police guard in hospital. | |
| Ms Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, was granted medical treatment at a previous court hearing after she said she had been tortured. | |
| The latest detentions will be seen as another blow to the authority of Zimbabwe's new power-sharing government, which has been struggling to resolve a plethora of political and economic issues, says the BBC's Southern Africa correspondent, Peter Biles. |