Mutare, Zimbabwe - Senior Zimbabwean opposition politician Roy Bennett was freed on bail from a prison in the eastern city of Mutare Thursday, 27 days after his arrest on dubious terrorism charges.

The Movement for Democratic Change's Bennett left Mutare remand prison, around 300 kilometres from Harare, after the Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down the state's appeal against a lower court's ruling that he be granted bail.

Bennett's bail was posted at 5,000 US dollars. The white farmer, who has been named for the position of deputy agriculture minister in the new power-sharing government, has also been ordered to surrender his passport, the title deeds to one of his properties and report to a police station three times a week.

Bennett was arrested on February 13, the day the new government was inaugurated, at a small airport outside Harare as he was leaving the country for South Africa.

He has been charged with terrorism, sabotage and banditry in relation to an alleged plot in 2006 to overthrow President Robert Mugabe. Allegations of that plot have since been discredited in court.

The MDC accused members of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party, which has the lion's share of power in the new unity government, of using Bennett to try to derail the agreement. (dpa)