A court in South Africa has rejected a demand that the government intervene to bring home 70 suspected mercenaries being held in neighbouring Zimbabwe.
The Pretoria High Court said the matter was not within its jurisdiction.
The men, all travelling on South African passports, were arrested in Zimbabwe in March and accused of plotting a coup in the West African State of Equatorial Guinea.
Their families had asked the court to order their extradition to South Africa, claiming they would not get a fair trial in either Equatorial Guinea or Zimbabwe.
