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Trial opens of 4 accused of killing Sudan policeman

The trial of four men accused of fatally stabbing a senior police officer during anti-coup protests in Sudan opened in the capital Khartoum on Sunday, an AFP correspondent said.

The judge ordered an investigation into allegations the four had been tortured in custody and adjourned the court until June 12, according to the correspondent.

General Bareema was killed in January, according to authorities, one of two police fatalities during months of ongoing protests that erupted in the wake of an October 25 coup led by army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.

According to medics, nearly 100 demonstrators have been killed in crackdowns against anti-coup protests.

Four protesters – Mohammed “Tupac” Adam, Mohamed al-Fattah, Mossaab al-Sherif and Ahmed al-Nanna – were arrested and charged in January over Bareema’s death, and have remained in custody since. In March, they held a week-long hunger strike in Khartoum’s Kober prison to protest against “inhumane treatment”, “police brutality” and a lack of due process, their lawyers said.

Hundreds rallied in front of the courthouse to demand the release of the defendants, who made peace signs as they were escorted inside by security forces. Dozens, including the policeman’s family, formed a rival protest to demand justice.

The October coup derailed a fragile transition to civilian rule set in motion by a power-sharing deal between the army and protest leaders after the ouster of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019. Since Burhan’s power-grab, hundreds of activists have been detained and at least 98 people killed in a crackdown, according to pro-democracy medics.

Many of those have been shot dead by security forces, the medics say. Burhan has said some security force members “misused” their weapons during demonstrations, but no trials of personnel have been publicly announced.

Ahead of the trial of the four accused protesters, a local pro-democracy “resistance” committee said that the case amounted to “targeting revolutionaries with malicious reports to get rid of them” and “an assault on the revolution and its values”.

On Saturday, thousands once more took to the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where two protesters were killed. In a statement, the police blamed the deaths on demonstrators’ “violent and unjustified hostility”.

UN special representative Volker Perthes said he was “appalled” by the latest deaths, tweeting Sunday that “it is time for the violence to stop” and urging Sudan’s authorities to lift an ongoing state of emergency.

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