A Sudanese court in Omdurman has sentenced to death 29 security members for torturing and killing a teacher inside a detention center last January, reports said on Tuesday.
There was tight security on Monday as the court sentenced the accused to three years in jail for others involved in the case.
Members of the national and intelligence and security service agency arrested the teacher Ahmed Khair on suspicion of participating in protests against now ousted president Omar al-Bashir.
He was pronounced dead a day later in the Khasm Algrba area, Kaslas State in eastern sudan where he lived with his family and worked as a teacher.
According to doctors the 40-year old was severely beaten and suffered serious injuries and died as a result.
Hundreds including students gathered outside the court in Omdurman, Sudan’s third largest city to support calls for justice for the teacher whose pictures were raised by the protesters.
The general prosecutor Tag al-Sair al-Habair said he is happy with the sentences.
He told a press conference inside the court house after the sentencing that the crime which the security members commited is “one of the most horrible crimes in Sudanese history”.
He said the convicts can appeal the decision but said the court’s ruling came with “clear evidence;
The brother of the teacher, Saad Alkair described the decision as a “victory not for family only but for justice and the Sudanese revolution”.
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