Sudan sentences 29 intelligence agents to hang for teacher's killing
The group that spearheaded the protests welcomed the ruling, the first to deliver sentences over crackdowns on demonstrations in the months before and after Bashir was toppled in April.
Sudanese civilians gather outside the court during the sentencing of 27 members of the national intelligence service to death by hanging over the killing of a teacher in detention in February during protests that led to the overthrow of former president Omar al-Bashir, in Omdurman, Sudan December 30(photo credit: REUTERS/ MOHAMED NURELDIN ABDALLAH)ByREUTERS