Zimbabwe Opposition Leader Acquitted of Treason
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Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted on Friday of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and seize power, in a verdict that provides a major boost for the opposition.
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Scores of supporters of Zimbabwe's opposition leader gathered outside the high court on Friday to hear the verdict in his treason trial, which could see him sentenced to death.
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JOHANNESBURG Surprising many critics of Zimbabwe&#39;s government, that nation&#39;s highest court on Friday acquitted the leading political opposition figure, Morgan Tsvangirai, on treason charges after a yearlong trial left the prosecution&#39;s case in shambles.
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The Zimbabwean army has been mobilised before the verdict today in the controversial trial of the main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is facing a possible death sentence over an alleged plot to kill President Robert Mugabe.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group accused of killing thousands, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.
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Jan Raath, The Times Correspondent in Zimbabwe, describes the scenes as opposition political leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason this morning.
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Scores of supporters of Zimbabwe&#39;s opposition leader gathered outside the high court on Friday to hear the verdict in his treason trial, which could see him sentenced to death.
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Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is found guilty in absentia of genocide after a 12-year trial.
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A Zimbabwe court Friday convicted a  British man accused of leading a coup plot against the  government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons charges,  but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.
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Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was acquitted of treason Friday in a stunning decision from a court system that routinely favors President Robert Mugabe&#39;s government.
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Zimbabwe's government is to appeal against the main opposition leader's acquittal on treason charges.
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Thailand's Democrat Party is acquitted of charges of electoral fraud, which had threatened its dissolution.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, his right eye swollen shut and his head partly shaved to reveal crudely stitched gashes, left a courtroom yesterday and was treated at a hospital for injuries that his lawyer said were the result of savage police beatings.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s main opposition leader is relaxing today in his bungalow in Harare, having just escaped a death sentence for treason.
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A judge in Zimbabwe stunned his nation Friday by acquitting an opposition political leader of charges he conspired to murder and replace the president.
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu  Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on  Tuesday after a 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest  governments.
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Morgan Tsvangirai, who has mounted the strongest ever challenge to the rule of Zimbabwe&#39;s President Robert Mugabe, was found not guilty of treason by the High Court in Zimbabwe&#39;s capital, Harare.