Old Etonian gets seven years for Guinea coup plot
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By Peta Thornycroft in Harare and David Blair, Africa Correspondent. Simon Mann, an old Etonian and former SAS officer, stood expressionless in khaki prison fatigues yesterday as he was sentenced to seven years
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East Timor's prosecutors sought a seven-year jail sentence for a former interior minister on Thursday for allegedly giving weapons to civilians led by an army rebel during a wave of violence last year.
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LIBREVILLE, 19 November (IRIN) - Verdicts in the trial of a group of suspected mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea will be handed down on 26 November, with two of the suspects facing the death penalty
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The son of former British Prime  Minister Margaret Thatcher pleaded guilty on Thursday to a role  in a foiled coup in Equatorial Guinea under a plea bargain that  spares him prison.
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A former British special forces operative who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea was convicted Friday of trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe's state arms manufacturer.
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London - Britain knew about an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a team of mercenaries was nabbed in Zimbabwe as they prepared to carry it out, the Observer newspaper reported on Sunday.
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MALABO - The prosecution demanded death sentences and jail terms exceeding a century in a trial of alleged putschists accused of plotting against Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
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A HAMPTON man who tried to smuggle nearly 1,000 ecstasy tablets in his underwear has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea A court convicted dozens of alleged mercenaries from South Africa and Armenia on Friday and sentenced them to prison terms for an alleged coup plot.
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HARARE: Former British special forces soldier Simon Mann, who allegedly led a foiled coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced last night to seven years in prison for trying to buy weapons from Zimbabwe&#39;s state arms manufacturer.
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A Ukrainian who exploited immigrant workers is jailed for seven years in the UK for money-laundering.
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Seven Britons linked to a plot to blow up U.S. financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, and stage a series of attacks in Britain were jailed for a total of 136 years by a London court on Friday.
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The British government knew about the alleged plot to overthrow the President of Equatorial Guinea at least five weeks before a group of mercenaries was arrested in March for planning the coup.
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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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The verdict in the trial of 14 foreign mercenaries accused of plotting to overthrow the president of Equatorial Guinea is expected Friday.
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The government of Equatorial Guinea is to sue a British man jailed last week for his part in an alleged coup plot there.
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MALABO, Equatorial Guinea - 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.