Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai aide released on bail

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai aide released on bail; trial starts Monday

(AP)  MUTARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - The politician whose trial shook Zimbabwe's unity government is free on bail.

Hours after a judge ordered bail for Roy Bennett on Friday, reporters watched him walk out of the jail in Mutare, 170 miles (270 kilometers) east of the capital.

Bennett says after a weekend in Harare, he will return to Mutare for his trial's start on Monday.

Friday, citing Bennett's "persecution," Zimbabwe's prime minister temporarily abandoned shared rule with President Robert Mugabe.

Bennett charges involve long-discredited allegations of an anti-Mugabe coup plot.