A Sudanese court on Thursday acquitted figures of the former regime accused of plotting against the democratic transition that began after the fall of dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019, their lawyer told AFP.
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Thirteen officials, including former foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour and former members of the ousted autocrat's National Congress Party (NCP), were "acquitted and the court ordered their immediate release", Abdallah said. Last.
The prosecution can still appeal but the court "did not find evidence to convict them", assured Me Derf again, while they were responding to charges of "financing of terrorism" and "disturbing the constitutional order. ".
At the beginning of the year, Ibrahim Ghandour and his co-accused went on a hunger strike to obtain a trial as soon as possible.
In 2019, the army put an end to thirty years of Bashir rule under pressure from the streets, paving the way for a transition to civilian power that was brutally interrupted in October by the putsch of the head of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane.
Since then, Sudan has been sinking into political crisis - the repression of the anti-coup killed nearly a hundred people - and economic - the currency is in free fall and the country is in fact back to Bashir-era embargo.
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Pro-democracy supporters continue to accuse the new military power led by General Burhane, Bashir's former army commander, of seeking to reinstall the NCP and its networks within the state.
The party, officially banned from all activity in Sudan, welcomed Thursday's verdict, seeing it as "an opportunity for renewal for the country".