http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/165265_zimbabwe18.htmlA lawyer for 67 men being held in Zimbabwe and accused of a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea said yesterday that the men had been charged with conspiring to murder a foreign leader.
But Zimbabwean prosecutors denied that, saying their country's laws do not cover such an offense.
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The lawyer for the detained men, Jonathan Samkange, said the murder charges were filed Tuesday. But Zimbabwe's attorney general, Bharat Patel, said the only charges the men faced were violating firearms, immigration and public order statutes. The most serious of those charges carries a prison term of 10 years. Patel said the country had no legal power to prosecute mercenaries who plot against foreign leaders.Have you ever heard of a defence lawyer talking about extra charges, and the prosecutors saying the defendants couldn't be charged with them?
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