Mariette le Roux | Pretoria
Seventy South Africans being held in Harare on suspicion of plotting a coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea, will have to stand trial in Zimbabwe, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Wednesday.
The men's advocate, Francois Joubert, told reporters his instructions were to lodge an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in the event of their Pretoria High Court bid failing, as it did.
But he would have to study the judgement in full before making a final decision.
"The problem is that such applications
can take weeks and weeks," Joubert said. "We don't have weeks."
Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe refused in the morning to order the South African government to seek the extradition of the men being held in Harare on suspicion of plotting a coup d'état in Equatorial Guinea.
http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=67612
Why aren't these mercenaries being tortured so we can find out if they are linked to Al Qaeda and what other terrorist acts they had planned and who are their Al Qaeda handlers?
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