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Zim 62 still in limbo
16/03/2005 15:59 - (SA)
Johannesburg - A group of suspected mercenaries in a Zimbabwean jail might have to wait until Monday for the outcome of an application to appeal about their deportation to South Africa.
Their lawyer, Alwyn Griebenow, said Zimbabwe's chief justice reserved judgment on the matter that was heard in the morning.
The chief justice would give his ruling no later than Monday, Griebenow said.
"We will just have to wait and see."
If the application was granted, the men would have to await the outcome of the appeal before they could be released.
The men had were to have returned home last week after receiving a four-month reduction of their sentences.
They were originally sentenced to 12 months after being convicted of breaching Zimbabwe's aviation, immigration, firearms and security laws.
However, Zimbabwe's attorney-general Sobuza Gula-Ndebele filed a last-minute application for leave to appeal against the high court's reduction of the sentences.
"The suspension of a sentence for early release of a prisoner only applies to Zimbabwean citizens," said Gula-Ndebele.
The men were arrested at Harare International Airport in March last year in connection with an alleged plot to topple the Equatorial Guinean government.
- SAPA
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