Eight opposition activists were arrested in Mutare on Thursday for allegedly singing political songs that denounced and denigrated Robert Mugabe. Pishai Muchauraya, the MDC spokesperson for the Tsvangirai MDC, said one of the activists, Llyod Mahute the provincial youth secretary, was severely beaten by a Chief Inspector Innocent Rigomeka of Chisamba Police Station. He is being held at an unknown police station and the other seven activists are being held at Mutare Central police station. We could not get a comment from the police.