SUDAN: MORE DARFUR REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH
June 9, 2009: a Sudanese court sentenced another 12 Darfur rebels to death for a 2008 attack on Khartoum, raising to 103 the number of Justice and Equality Movement fighters ordered hanged for the raid. Judge Mudathir al-Rashid found the JEM fighters guilty of terrorism, murder and destroying public property during the unprecedented attack on the capital's twin city of Omdurman in May 2008. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 09/06/2009)
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