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Panama's Noriega
Stays in Miami Jail
Panama's former military
ruler Manuel Noriega
remains in jail in the
United States, even
though his 17-year
sentence for drug
offences has ended.
He had been due to leave
jail and be extradited
to France, where he has
been convicted on money
laundering charges.
But defence lawyers
filed a last-minute
appeal which will be
heard by a federal court
in Georgia and could
take weeks.
A US judge last week
rejected an earlier
appeal by Noriega,
now 73, that sought to
block his extradition.
For now, Noriega will
remain in his cell in
Miami.
The Federal Bureau of
Prisons on Sunday listed
Noriega's projected
release date as
"unknown".
"The government has
agreed to keep General
Noriega here until all
appeals are exhausted,"
Noriega's lawyer Frank
Rubino told the
Associated Press news
agency.
"It's going to be a slow
and orderly process."
Noriega was sentenced to
10 years in jail in
France in 1999 for
laundering money through
French banks to buy
three luxurious
apartments.
He was once one of
Washington's top allies
in Central America.
But charges of
drug-trafficking,
election-rigging and
human rights violations
led to the US invasion
into Panama and the
seizure of Noriega in
1989. |
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Manuel Noriega is not giving up the
fight against extradition to France
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