SUDAN: MORE DARFUR REBELS SENT TO DEATH
a Sudanese court sentenced another nine Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on
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a Sudanese court sentenced another nine Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on Khartoum, raising to 91 the number of Justice and Equality Movement fighters ordered hanged for the raid.
Judge Awkesha Mohammed Awkesha found the JEM fighters guilty of terrorism, murder and destroying public property during the unprecedented attack on the capital's twin city of Omdurman in May 2008.
Two other men were acquitted and another was given a five-year sentence for having given the other accused somewhere to hide.
Judge Awkesha Mohammed Awkesha found the JEM fighters guilty of terrorism, murder and destroying public property during the unprecedented attack on the capital's twin city of Omdurman in May 2008.
Two other men were acquitted and another was given a five-year sentence for having given the other accused somewhere to hide.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: The Age, 20/05/2009)
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