seven Justice and Equality Movement’s members were sentenced to death

seven Justice and Equality Movement’s members were sentenced to death by the Special Criminal Court for Darfur Crimes for their involvement in an attack on a trade convoy in 2010 that left 59 Central Reserve Forces (Abu Tira) dead. All victims were guarding the convoy, which was moving from Khartoum to Nyala, and were killed in an ambush. The assault took place in the South Darfur area of Khor Baskawit. In an unusual development, the Court did not publish the names of the seven convicts. However, according to a spokesman of the Justice and Equality Movement, the names of the JEM prisoners sentenced to death are: Ibrahim Sherif Yusuf, Adam Toam Adam, Hassan Ishaaq Abdullah Mohamadain, Siddiq Abbaker Yahiya, Mohamed Adam Hasaballa, Abdel Raziq Daoud Abdel Seed Nimir, and Abu Al Gasim Abdullah Abu Bakr. On 17 June 2013, the JEM’s spokesman announced that the Sudanese government had transferred the seven prisoners from regular cells in Shala prison in El Fasher to execution cells “in preparation for their execution.”