The Khartoum Criminal Court has acquitted former head of Sudan’s disbanded National Congress Party and former Foreign Affairs Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, alongside 12 others, for inciting war against the state, on Thursday.
The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) confirmed the death of one protestor and at least 78 injured, during yesterday’s nationwide anniversary demonstrations commemorating the 6 April 2019 protests that heralded the overthrow of the 30-year Omar Al Bashir’ dictatorship less than a week later.
Emergency lawyers reported that more than 100 detainees from Soba Prison were transferred to prisons in Debek, Kosti, and Port Sudan.
Appearing for the second day before Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman (known as ‘Ali Kushayb’) has reiterated his denial of guilt in an unsworn statement from the dock, branding the accusations against him as “misleading falsehoods”.
Attackers targeted worker camps in the Balila oil fields in West Kordofan with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) on Tuesday. The Oil Workers Association announced that all activities at the Balila oil fields were being halted for security reasons yesterday.