Tsvangirai charged with high treason
Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2002

MORGAN Tsvangirai, the MDC president, was yesterday arrested and, in an unprecedented move, quickly hauled into the Harare Magistrates' Court where he was granted bail of $1,5 million on allegations of plotting to assassinate President Mugabe.

Later, the MDC secretary-general, Professor Welshman Ncube, described the arrest and appearance in court of the MDC top brass as "an attempt to continue harassing the MDC leadership in order to stop us from resisting an illegitimate election process". MORE 

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