CAIRO - A court in Sudan on Monday sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against Sudan’s longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year. Monday’s convictions and sentences, which can be appealed, were the first connected to the killings of protesters in the revolt. Last December, the first rally was held in Sudan to protest the soaring cost of bread, marking the beginning of a pro-democracy movement that convulsed the large African country. At the time, police denied any police wrongdoing and blamed his death on an “illness,” without providing any details. The image of the former dictator in a defendant’s cage sent a strong message, on live TV for all of Sudan.

Source: thestar December 30, 2019 10:46 UTC