WORLD BRIEFING / SUDAN
A Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement to death for a 2008 attack on Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
Five other defendants were acquitted and will be freed, the court said.
More than 70 rebels have been sentenced to death in the bold attack in which more than 200 people were killed, including JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim’s half brother. None of those sentenced has yet been executed.
The rebels drove hundreds of miles across desert and scrubland to reach the capital and were only a few miles from the presidential palace when government troops halted them.
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