Sudan filed charges against 92 people suspected of involvement in...

Sudan filed charges against 92 people suspected of involvement in an alleged coup attempt to topple President Omar al-Beshir's Islamist government, the state prosecutor was quoted as saying. 
The suspects, among them 18 members of the armed forces, faced charges that carried the death sentence or life in prison, prosecutor general Salah Abuzaid said.
He said most of those charged over the alleged September coup plot were members of the opposition Popular Congress party of Hassan al-Turabi, who was in jail awaiting trial on a raft of offences against the state.
The 18 military personnel would face court martial, Abuzaid said, adding that the investigation found "adequate evidence that justifies referring the suspects to justice."
He said the charges against the 74 civilians, who included a number of retired military servicemen, ranged from undermining the constitutional regime, inciting war against the state and passing intelligence to a foreign country.
"Those charges carry punishments of death and life imprisonment, depending on the role each suspect played in the subversive attempt," Abuzaid said. But defence lawyer Abdel Salam al-Juzouli said none of the 92 were officials of the Popular Congress, but were rather ordinary people who had come from Darfur and were arrested in Khartoum.