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The two South African engineers - Frederic Potgieter from George and Peter Huxham from Langebaan - imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea are still there six months after their shocking arrest on Thursday, February 9. They are appealing a drug smuggling conviction after police arrested the men at the Anda China Malabo hotel in Equatorial Guinea on a complaint believed to be related to a shipment of cocaine found on an international flight.
They are both engineers working on different platforms for the company. They got to know each other after the arrest. " Last Friday, 30 June, the men were sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined an amount of R141 million each: "We have no idea what's going to happen going forward," the Potgieter family's spokesperson, Shaun Murphy, told George Herald. "It is hell. There is no other way to describe it. The guys are innocent.
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