Sudan sentences paramilitaries to death for killing protesters


Six members of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary unit were sentenced to death by a Sudanese court on Thursday for killing six protesters during a 2019 demonstration over food and fuel shortages. – EPA pic, August 8, 2021.

A SUDANESE court has sentenced six members of a feared paramilitary force to death for killing six protesters during a 2019 demonstration over food and fuel shortages.

The protesters, including four schoolchildren, were shot dead in July 2019 in the city of Al-Obeid in North Kordofan, sparking outrage across Sudan.


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