Sudan: Court Sentences Paramilitary Officers To Death For Killing Protesters - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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August 6, 2021
A Sudanese court on Thursday sentenced six members of a feared
paramilitary force to death for killing six protesters during a 2019
demonstration over food and fuel shortages.
The protesters, including four schoolchildren, were shot dead in July
2019 in the city of Al-Obeid in North Kordofan, sparking outrage across
Sudan.
Days later, nine members of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF,
paramilitary unity were arrested.
At their trial on Thursday, broadcast on Sudan TV, Judge Mohamed
Rahma sentenced six of the defendants to death, acquitted two others,
and referred one to a juvenile court, as he was under 18.
Rahma said the actions of six found guilty were unnecessary, and were
not on par with the alleged verbal provocations by protesters during the
otherwise peaceful demonstration.
In Sudan, death sentences are usually carried out by hanging, but the six
may appeal the ruling.