By year 2019, the court sessions concluded and set free three defendants. The other eleven defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death, while the other three defendants who escaped during the court process, two of them were caught and tried separately in two different courts. The update on their trail is as follows: A. The ninth (9th) defendant/Abduelraheem Abdelgadir Salah Mohammed. His trial is running at Khartoum and after series of court session, On 15th January 2020, The justice read the verdict where the defendant was found to be guilty in breaching the following articles of Sudan Criminal Act 1991: o Article (21):Joint acts in execution of criminal conspiracy o Article (130): Murder o Article (139): Penalty for intentional causing bodily harm. Then after two court session were conducted on 17th February and 1st March 2020 for hearing the presidential office on behalf of the deceased Mr. Adroub and the opinion of the family of the other deceased people 5. However, the third court session of 1st April 2020, was canceled due to COVID-19 following the administrative order No. 3 of the year 2020 issued on 15 March 2020 and signed by the head of Sudan Judiciary Authority(Appendix – 3). The administrative order stopped most of the activities of criminal courts from 15th March 2020 until further notice. This was in line with the health measures put in place to control the pandemic which included banning of public gatherings. B. The fugitive defendants (Babikir Nematalla Babikir) was caught and court tried him in Al-Abbasiya and he was sentenced to seven years in prison. However, the two lawyers appealed the judgment to the Court of Appeal. No feedback up to date from the Court of Appeal. 5 This was because according to Sudan law, they should provide opinion on either to forgive, compensate (Deeya) or death sentence (Gasas). 23