13 November 2007 :
a 16 year old boy is among a group of people facing the death sentence in Sudan for their alleged role in the assassination of a local newspaper editor last year, an international human rights group said.Al-Tayeb Abdel Aziz, who was 15 at the time of his arrest, was among 10 people sentenced to death for the killing of Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed, the editor of the pro-Islamist Al-Wifaq newspaper, Amnesty International said in a statement. Defense attorney Kamal Omar told The Associated Press that the ruling relied on confessions extracted under torture.
Ahmed, a controversial figure in Sudan's Muslim community, was kidnapped from his home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum in September 2006 and beheaded, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
(Sources: International Herald Tribune, 12/11/2007)
