HUDO Centre 27th February 2018 Update (13) COURT TRIAL OF AL-SANADRA CASE The court sessions were held on 14th and 21st February 2018 at Khartoum North court before Justice/ Abdeen Hamid Dhahi, all parties were present. The next court session is scheduled for 28th February 2018. Summary of the court session held on 14th Feb 2018 The session started by 11:45 am (Sudan local time) and the activity in this session was to hear the testimony of the seventeenth (17th) accusing witness by names of; Altahir Mansour Gaily, 66 years old and a resident of Al-Abbasiya town. He is one of Tagali senior Ommdas/ Mayors and Al-Sanadra is under his territory/ authority. Altahir Mansour Gaily was cross-examined by the prosecutor and lawyers from both panels. In his testimony, he informed court that he received a phone call from the governor/ Daoud Abu-Kalam informing him that he should be at his office for an emergency meeting. The governor had also sent him a car which he used together with the Al-Abbasiya Ommda/ Adam Omer Ismail to go to the meeting venue.  The witness also informed court that, the governor told him that the meeting was about the looted cattle. Later on, when he was back from the meeting, he received a phone call from Aljailey Adam Alawad (the third accusing witness) informing him that, they are bringing five dead bodies to Al-Abbasiya hospital. It is at that moment that he got to know about Al- Sanadra attack. That he inquired about the phone caller and without delay, he went and saw the dead bodies at the hospital.  That, the following people were in the meeting; the governor/ Daoud Abu-Kalam, Al-Abbasiya’s army commandant/ Colonel Elrasheed, the PDF leader/ Mohammed Al-Sharif, Ommda/ Adam Omer and other community leaders. The other three people who joined after his arrival are; the state’s Member of Parliament/ Gaidoum Moalla, defendants Abakar Fadelmowla and Hamid Almanzol.