HARARE - A court in Zimbabwe has dismissed an application by seven foreign nationals to have their charges of dealing in rhino horns dropped.
The seven, who are from China, were arrested in Victoria Falls just before Christmas and appeared this week in a court in the coal-mining town of Hwange.The lawyer had argued that the State didn’t have a case against his seven clients, who are facing charges of illegally possessing 20 kilogrammes of rhino horn.Pictures published by ZBC online show some of the men dressed in khaki prison garb climbing onto the back of a prison truck.
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