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Biti appears on treason charge
THE Zimbabwean opposition’s number two leader Tendai Biti appeared briefly in court on Monday(7/07/08) to face treason charges and was ordered to return on August 27 when a trial date should be announced.

Biti, secretary-general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), made no comment during the hearing at Harare Magistrate’s Court but his lawyer Lewis Uriri asked that a trial date be set by the time he returns to court next month and charged his arrest on June 12 “bordered on abduction”.

Uriri also asked that a report ordered by the court last month on complaints by Biti surrounding the conditions in which he was held on remand for a fortnight be made available by the same date. Biti was arrested within minutes of flying back home from South Africa in order to campaign for the June 27 run-off election between MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe, which Tsvangirai subsequently boycotted.

The treason charges related to documents which were allegedly authored by Biti but whose authenticity had been disputed by the MDC. He was bailed on June 26.
 

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