Zimbabwe police bar trade union protests over job losses

Zimbabwe police on Saturday blocked the country's main workers union from protesting against a recent wave of job losses and briefly held union leaders, one of the march organisers said.

"The police besieged our offices when we were about to stage our demonstration and they decided to arrest the leadership," Japhet Moyo, secretary general of Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) told AFP.

"The police then released the leadership by randomly dropping us at various points away from (the planned march site)," he said.

The protestors had intended to express their "anger and displeasure over job losses."