Tag: Omar al-Bashir
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Sudanese ousted president, Al-Bashir sent to prison, two brothers detained
Sudan’s military rulers have transferred ousted president Omar al-Bashir to prison and also detained two of his five brothers Abdallah Hassan al-Bashir and Al-Abbas Hassan al-Bashir. Following the dramatic end to Bashir’s rule of three decades last week, he was moved late Tuesday to Kober prison in the capital, a family source said without revealing…
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Sudan’s military council speaks on handing over ousted president al-Bashir to ICC
Sudan’s transitional military council on Friday said that it would not hand over ousted President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for trial. Omer Zainal-Abdin, the Chairman of the Political Committee in Sudan’s Transitional Military Council, said this at a news conference in the capital Khartoum. “We, as a military council, and during…
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Sudan’s Bashir ousted by military, placed under arrest
President Omar al-Bashir, was on Thursday overthrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections. Bashir ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years. In an address on state television, Defence Minister, Awad Auf said Bashir, 75, was under arrest in a…