Sudan sentences 27 to death for torturing, killing protester

Sudanese court  sentenced 27 members of the country’s security forces to death for torturing and killing a detained protester during the uprising against longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir earlier this year.The death of protester Ahmed al-Khair, a school teacher, while in detention in February was a key point — and a symbol — in the uprising that eventually led to the military’s ouster of al-Bashir. convictions and sentences, which can be appealed, were the first connected to the killings of protesters in the revolt.

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