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Seven Nigerians
arrested after a seaborne attack on Guinea’s presidential palace in
February last year have been sentenced to 12 years in prison, a Malabo
court said Monday.

The Nigerians were
found guilty of terrorism and also fined 149 million CFA francs
(230,000 euros, 310,000 dollars), court president Antonio Pascual Ojo
Ebobo said, reading the sentence.

The court also
announced the release of 11 Equatorial Guineans – all members of the
opposition People’s Union Party – who had been suspects in the February
17, 2009 attack. Seven of them had already been freed last month.

The accused
Nigerians told interrogators they were on their way by sea to Cameroon
when they were driven off course by a storm and stopped by the
Equatorial Guinea navy.

The army repelled
the attack which, officials said at the time, involved fighters from
the Nigerian rebel Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
(MEND), which later denied involvement.