- Title: Timeline of Sudan's revolution and its bloody aftermath
- Date: 18th December 2019
- Summary: Former Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir is convicted of corruption and sentenced to two years detention in a reform facility. The presiding judge says Bashir, 75, is too old to serve time in prison. Supporters of Bashir protest against the verdict in the streets of Khartoum. KHARTOUM, SUDAN (DECEMBER 14, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FORMER SUDANESE PRESIDENT OMAR AL-BASHIR BEHIND SITTING IN A METAL CAGE IN COURTROOM PRESIDING JUDGE, ALSADEK ABDELRAHMAN, ENTERING COURTROOM (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PRESIDING JUDGE, ALSADEK ABDELRAHMAN, SAYING: "One, the defendant Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir is sentenced to detention in a reform facility for a period of two years, the period is determined according to the procedures of charge 5650 of the year 2019, pertaining to the warrant of 28 August, 2019. (Secondly), the confiscation of the funds found in national and foreign currency, in accordance to charge 56 for the Sudanese government, released under my signature - Alsadek Abdelrahman - the presiding judge in the appeals court of December 14, 2019." LAWYERS BEING SEATED IN COURTROOM VARIOUS OF BASHIR SUPPORTERS MARCHING THROUGH STREETS, SUPPORTERS CHANTING (Arabic) "Peaceful, peaceful."
- Embargoed: 1st January 2020 03:04
- Keywords: Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces June 3 massacre Military Transitional Council President Omar al-Bashir Sudan revolution TMC protests
- Location: ATBARA, OMDURMAN, KHARTOUM, SAID TO BE KASSALA AND UNKNOWN LOCATION, SUDAN
- City: ATBARA, OMDURMAN, KHARTOUM, SAID TO BE KASSALA AND UNKNOWN LOCATION, SUDAN
- Country: Sudan
- Topics: Government/Politics,Editors' Choice
- Reuters ID: LVA016BADTGZR
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
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