Sudan: Death penalty

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Index Number: AFR 54/012/2009
Date Published: 29 April 2009
Categories: Sudan

Sudanese special courts have sentenced 82 Darfuri men to death, after unfair trials, for their alleged involvement in a May 2008 attack on the capital, Khartoum, by a Darfur-based armed opposition group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).