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Zimbabwe deports Mann to E Guinea

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Source: bbc news

Zimbabwe has extradited Briton Simon Mann, a leader of alleged mercenaries, to Equatorial Guinea to face coup plot charges, his lawyer says.
The ex-SAS officer was jailed in Zimbabwe on arms charges in 2004, and rearrested after his release last May.

On Wednesday, the High Court turned down an appeal against his extradition - his lawyers had argued he could face torture in Equatorial Guinea.

He was flown out of the country without his legal team's knowledge.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7221948.stm

Meanwhile his convicted coup plotting partner Mark Thatcher - son of ex-UK PM - remains coddled in his mom's London house, flanked by the free security she enjoys as an elder statesman, having received a mere rap on the knuckles (£250,000 fine) for his part in the plot.

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