Zimbabwe's High Court ruled today that opposition leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai should be tried for treason after deciding that state lawyers had demonstrated he may have plotted to kill President Robert Mugabe in 2001.
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Mr Morgan Tsvangirai
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But Judge Paddington Garwe dismissed similar charges against two other senior members of Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) - party Secretary-General Mr Welshman Ncube and agriculture chief Mr Renson Gasela.
The court ruling came amid expectations that the MDC might agree to resume talks with Mr Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party to begin resolving Zimbabwe's deep political and economic crisis.
The MDC leader, Mr Ncube and Mr Gasela sat motionless in the dock as the judge read his ruling, and all declined to speak to reporters when they came out.
Mr Tsvangirai, who faces a possible death sentence if convicted of the plot, remains free on bail.