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HUDO Centre
10th October 2017
Update (2) COURT TRIAL OF AL-SANADRA CASE
The third (3rd) court session was conducted on 3rd October 2017 before Justice/
Abdeen Hamad Dhahi at Khartoum north court and all parties were present except
one defendant from who attended the previous session. The judge adjourned court
to 18th October 2017 Summary of the court session On 3rd October 2017, the
court session started at 12:30 PM before Justice Abdeen Hamad Dhahi. It was
attended by the prosecutor Mr. Mohamed Alsafi, the victims’ lawyers (accusation
panel) led by Mr. Baroud, the defendants’ lawyers led by Mr. Amir, the
military’s legal consultant, the defendants and the general public including
activists and journalists. In attendance also was Mr. Yasir Mohammed Ahmed an
official from the legal aid department under the ministry of justice to defend
the juvenile (underage) defendant-Hassan Ramadan, 14 years old. But another
lawyer Mr. Abu-Algasim Mohammed Ahmed showed up as a family lawyer to represent
the accused juvenile. The court session started with registration of defendants
as the list from the investigator’s minutes indicate below;
1. Hassan Ismail Ramadan, 14 years old, illiterate and a resident of
Al-Abbasiya town.
2. Ahmed Jazim Hamid Gebreil, 34 years old, married, resident of Al-Abbasiya
town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
3. Saied Abdalla Al-Saied Mustafa, 30 years old, married, resident of
Al-Abbasiya town and Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) soldier.
4. Ahmed Al-Tayeb Al-Zain Al-khair, 38 years old, married, illiterate, resident
of Al-Abbasiya town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
5. Al-sadiq Mohammed Rahma, 45 years old, married, illiterate, resident of
Al-Abbasiya town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
6. Bardab Mohammed Abakar, 30 years old, married, illiterate, resident of
Al-Mowaileh village, farmer/cultivator and a member of Popular Defense Forces
(PDF).
7. Osman Mohammed Osman Abdurrahman, 40 years old, married, illiterate,
resident of Al[1]Mowaileh village and
a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
8. Alhadi Abdelrahman Ibrahim Almahdi, 34 years old, married, illiterate
resident of Al-Abbasiya town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
9. Ahmed Abdelgadir Salah Mohammed, 38 years old, married, illiterate, resident
of Al-Abbasiya town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
10.Abdelraheem Abdelgadir Salah Mohammed, 22years old, illiterate, resident of
Almasan village and member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
11.Alzaki Saleh Alzaki Mohammed, 40 years old, married, illiterate, resident of
Al-Abbasiya town and a member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
12.Hamid Almanzol Ahmed Hamouda, 39 years old, married, resident of Rashad and
employed with ministry of agriculture.
13.Abakar Fadelmowla Suliman, 45 years old, married, a member of Popular
Defense Forces (PDF) and a farmer/cultivator.
14.Saleh Ibrahim Elamein Mohammed, 25 years old, married, illiterate and a
member of Popular Defense Forces (PDF).
15.Mohmmed Nasreldin Daoud, 27 years old, married, illiterate, a member of
Popular Defense Forces (PDF) and a trader. The victims’ lawyer Mr. Baroud
objected and informed court that “The military court/judiciary did not
implement the court order of detaining all the defendants in the military
prison. As a result, one of them had escaped and many others might escape”. The
tenth (10th) defendant Abdelraheem Abdelgadir had escaped from the cell that
morning, so Mr. Baroud requested court to issue an order of confining all the defendants
at Kober prison. The judge/justice called in SAF’s commander (1st lieutenant)
who brought the defendants to court to confirm the escape of the tenth (10th)
defendant of which he did confirm.
The judge gave the following orders;
· All defendants must be
confined in Kober prison
· The commander (1 st
lieutenant) should inform court through the official military investigations
the circumstances under which the tenth (10th) defendant escaped
· Instructed the court
secretary to write to the military court informing them that they did not
implement court orders repeatedly which led to the escape of a defendant. The
military’s legal consultant/ Yasir Abdelwakeel objected that SAF soldiers
should not be detained at Kober prison because Kober prison is not a military
prison. He requested to get the copy of order so that he starts on the process
of appealing/ objecting the order at the Court of Appeal.
The judge adjourned court to 18th October 2017 Notes;
· More than thirty lawyers
and eight journalists were present. The general public turned up in big numbers
and the courtroom could not accommodate them all.
· The 6th and 7th
defendants’ names were written wrongly on the investigators minutes.
· Court discovered later
that one defendant (escaped) was not present in court. This was because his
brother answered/ responded when defendants’ names were being called out loud
(two defendants 9th and 10th are brothers).
However, there was other defendant escaped earlier since the case filed by
police, his name is Hassan Abdelfadeil.
· The commander (1st
lieutenant) did not inform court about the defendant’s escape on arrival.
· The relatives of both the
victims’ and defendants’ sat together peacefully
· When the judge inquired
(asked) about where the defendants’ were detained, he discovered that they were
detained in PDF camp western Omdurman town.
· The victims’ families
were contented with the judge’s order to keep defendants in Kober prison.
· The villages mentioned
(Almasan and Al-Mowaileh) are located in Al-Abbasiya locality.
Recommendations HUDO urges all the concerned, especially:
§ The Sudan court to
conduct the trial fairly
§ The diplomatic missions
and embassies to observe the court sessions
§ The activists and
defendants’ supporters to keep attending the court sessions
§ The Sudan and
international media to give full coverage for the court
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