Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader who...

Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's opposition leader who is standing against President Robert Mugabe in the election on March 9 and 10, was charged with high treason.
The charge, which carries the death penalty, was dismissed as a political ploy to discredit the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change.
Tsvangirai's lawyer, Innocent Chagonda, said it was "strange" that a man charged with a serious crime had been allowed to go home after being questioned by police for two hours.
If there was any real evidence of treason, they would have locked him up, he said.
Tsvangirai said: "The police read me a warned-and-cautioned statement that I and my three colleagues planned to assassinate President Mugabe. Of course, I denied that completely. The whole thing is contrived to damage me politically."
Two of the other three members of the opposition - Welshman Ncube, secretary-general of the MDC and Renson Gasela, the party's spokesman on agriculture - filmed in a "sting" video by a Canadian firm of political consultants, are expected to be charged today.
The charges follow a visit to Harare by Iranian-born Ari Ben Menashe, a mysterious figure who was present at a meeting in Montreal between Tsvangirai's delegation and Canadian political consultants Dickson and Madsen, which was filmed secretly.
The video, recorded in December 2001, purports to show Tsvangirai discussing Mugabe's "elimination".
Asked on BBC television at the weekend why Mr Tsvangirai would have discussed an assassination plot with foreign political consultants, whom he barely knew, Mr ben Menashe replied: "Because he's stupid." Mr ben Menashe admits to working for the Zimbabwe government for years and to having been paid, but refuses to disclose details.
Opposition sources dismiss the episode as just one more of the ruling Zanu-PF party's "dirty tricks". It followed closely on the heels of a front page article in the government-owned Herald newspaper accusing Britain of being "in league with" the MDC, ex-Rhodies (Rhodesians), former South African apartheid military officers, and the British High Commissioner in Harare in planning to foment violence after Mugabe wins the election.