A senior aide to Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, is set to go on trial early next month to face terrorism charges.The arrest of Roy Bennett has caused a huge rift in Zimbabwe's fragile unity government, prompting Tsvangirai to pull out of the arrangement last week labelling Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, as "dishonest and unreliable".
On Monday a court in the city of Mutare set the date of Bennett's trial for November 9.
Bennett, the treasurer of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was first arrested in February on his return from South Africa to take up the post of deputy agriculture minister in the unity government.
Bennett, the treasurer of Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), was first arrested in February on his return from South Africa to take up the post of deputy agriculture minister in the unity government.
He was then released on bail, but was re-arrested last week prompting Tsvangirai's decision to pull out of the government, at least temporarily.
Tsvangirai said Bennett's detention showed the "fiction of the credibility and integrity" of the unity government, and vowed to resume co-operation once issues such as disputes over key posts and a crackdown against his supporters are resolved.
Full article: Aljazeera
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