Zimbabwe 'mercenaries' trial sheds little light on coup plot
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Sixty-eight suspected mercenaries including former British soldier Simon Mann begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe on various convictions related to an alleged plot to stage a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
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A Zimbabwe judge is to hand down sentences on Friday against the alleged mastermind of a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, Briton Simon Mann, and 67 other suspected mercenaries who were convicted two weeks ago.
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Six suspects being held on allegations of plotting a coup to oust President Robert Mugabe have denied charges of treason
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HARARE : A court in Zimbabwe found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms to stage a putsch in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but acquitted 66 other defendants of involvement in the alleged coup.
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HARARE - Zimbabwe said it had put its security forces on high alert to deal with what it said was an opposition plan to unleash violence on Friday when a court is due to pass judgment in the treason trial of its leader.
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Hatched by Old Etonians and other members of the British political and financial elite, an alleged scheme to seize control of this oil-rich nation was no ordinary African coup plot, according to witnesses and prosecutors
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe&#39;s president, has rejected a request from Equatorial Guinea for the extradition of 70 alleged mercenaries accused of plotting a coup in the west African country.
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The leader of Zimbabwe&#39;s largest opposition party was acquitted of treason charges Friday by a High Court in Harare. The judge said there was not enough credible evidence to convict the politician, Morgan Tsvangirai.
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A Zimbabwe court has jailed British former special services officer Simon Mann for a total of seven years for trying to buy dangerous weapons in a case linked to an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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At least 68 suspected mercenaries, including Simon Mann, a former British soldier, and a number of South African nationals, begin serving jail sentences this week in Zimbabwe.
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Ministers are asked how they knew about an alleged African coup plot weeks before mercenaries were arrested for planning it.
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Sir Mark Thatcher will &quot;easily&quot; be able to prove he had nothing to do with an alleged coup plot in the oil-rich west African state of Equatorial Guinea, his lawyer said yesterday, despite the jailing of his close friend Simon Mann on arms charges.
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The trial of 19 people accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea resumed, as South Africa examined a request from the oil-rich country to question Mark Thatcher, charged with bankrolling the planned putsch.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Sept. 10 -- A Zimbabwean court jailed a former British special services officer for seven years Friday in a case prosecutors linked to a foiled coup attempt in the oil-rich country of Equatorial Guinea.
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Sixty-six men accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea deny breaching Zimbabwe's security laws.
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Six men, including a former Zimbabwe army officer, will go on trial next Friday for allegedly plotting a coup against President Robert Mugabe, their lawyer said.
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Seventy men held in Zimbabwe accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea will not be extradited.