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Sudan’s ousted Omar al-Bashir goes on trial for 1989 Islamist coup

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Bashir, who could face the death penalty and may yet face war crimes charges at the ICC, was in the Khartoum courthouse with 27 other men

Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising in 2019, went on trial on Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago.

Along with Bashir, 27 other men from the ousted regime were in the dock at the Khartoum courthouse, which was heavily guarded by police outside with AK-47 assault rifles, batons and teargas grenades. Outside the courthouse, dozens of family members of the defendants noisily rallied against the trial, many shouting ““They did not allow the majority of the families to attend the trial though we presented our requests three days ago,” Mohammad Nafaa, the son of a former agriculture minister, said.

Until the end, the idiosyncratic leader with the trademark cane, sometimes known to dance at political rallies, had been defiant, angrily labeling the protesters “traitors” and “rats” that should “return to their holes”. One of the army of defence lawyers, Hashem al-Gali, has charged that Bashir and the others would face “a political trial” being held “in a hostile environment”.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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