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Coup suspects to be freed

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Published: May 12, 2005 at 4:26 PM

HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 12 (UPI) -- Sixty men held for more than a year in an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea are reported about to be sent from Zimbabwe back to South Africa.

Defense lawyer Alwyn Griebenow said they would be taken by bus from Harare to the Beit Bridge border crossing, where immigration officials will meet them, the BBC said Thursday. The alleged ringleader, Briton Simon Mann, remained in prison in Zimbabwe.

Griebenow said the soon-to-be-released men were in good health apart from one with tuberculosis. He said coup charges were not proven, but they were convicted of breaking Zimbabwe's immigration laws.

They will be reunited with their families before facing possible charges in South Africa, their lawyer said.

Topics: Simon Mann
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