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Police might charge opposition leader

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwe news reports said on Monday police might prosecute opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for threatening President Robert Mugabe. The state news agency ZIANA quoted police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena as saying police were examining the speech Tsvangirai made on Saturday.

    MDC secretary for legal affairs David Coltart said Tsvangirai had no legal case to answer. “The MDC’s position is that Morgan Tsvangirai was giving a warning to President Mugabe to consider history. There is a long line of dictators who have refused to go peacefully and the people have removed them violently,” Coltart said. “In that context, I do not believe that Mr Tsvangirai has committed any crime. It would be extremely ill-advised for this government to proceed against him,” Coltart was quoted as saying.

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