MALABO - Equatorial Guinea has granted amnesty to Britain's Simon Mann and South African Nick Du Toit, two mercenaries convicted for an attempted coup plot in March 2004, national radio announced on Tuesday.
According to a decree dated November 2 read on national radio, "total amnesty" was granted to Mann "for humanitarian reasons" after having considered "his state of health".
Mann had been operated on for a hernia in November 2008, following his sentencing in June that year to 34 years in jail for leading a failed coup attempt to oust President Teodoro Obiang Nguema.
Another decree also read on national radio cited the amnesty given mercenary leader Du Toit as well as three other people convicted in the affair.
Other coup suspects had included Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher.
