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HUDO Centre The 14th Defendant: Nasreldin Daoud Mohammed Joudat  I’m a resident of Al-Abbasiya town.  I’m a member (Mujahid) of PDF and I was armed with AK 47 gun.  On Friday 2nd Sep. 2016, I was coming from travel and I slept after at my house.  I was not among Al-Sanadra attackers.  I know in person the defendants; Saleh Joudat, Ahmed Abdelgadir, Abakar Fadelmowla, Hamid Almanzol and the rest by face from the PDF.  I do not know witness Hassan Alzaibaq and Yousif Ahmed Mukhtar. I had never seen them before. Summary of 14th March court session The court session was held on 14th March 2018 and began at 11:00 AM (Sudan local time) at Khartoum North court before Justice/ Abdeen Hamid Dhahi. Apart from the prosecutor, all parties were present. During this session, the judge was reading charges preferred against each defendant after hearing the investigator, complainant, accusing witnesses and questioning the defendants: 1. The 1st defendant/ Hassan Ismail Ramadan (underage): the court procedure shall continue against him without accusing him yet, any charges against him shall be transferred to the children’s court. 2. The rest of the defendants; the court accused them of attacking Al-Sanadra in collaboration with others some in military uniform and others in civilian clothes which caused death of eight civilians and injuring others. This was an act without an official order from authorized institution. They were accused under the following articles in Sudan Criminal penal 1991:  Article (21): Join acts in execution of criminal conspiracy  Article (130): Murder  Article (139): Penalty for causing intentional wounds  Article (167): Armed robbery (Hiraba)  Article (175): Robbery 3. Then, the judge gave the defendants an opportunity of replying, which was; A. The military’s legal consultant Mr. Amir Ghalib, replied as follows: o On behalf of the 2nd (Ahmed Jazim), 3rd (Saied Abdalla Al-Saied) and 4th (Ahmed AlTayeb Al-Zain) defendants, they are innocent, they are SAF soldiers and they are following official orders yet. They did not reached the incident’s area. We will prove that according to the submitted list of the witnesses.

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Court Trial of Al Sanadra Case

Reports

Type of Report: Thematic reports / research papers

Date of publication: Sep 17, 2017

Brief description: On 2nd Sept 2016, Public Defense Force (PDF) soldiers on more than twenty motorcycles accompanied by two land cruiser vehicles attacked Al-Sanadra village in Al-Abbasiya locality in South Kordufan state. The attack was based on a claim that some cattle were looted and the footsteps passed through Al-Sanadra village. As a result of the attack, nine (9) people were killed, about twenty (20) wounded and some houses were looted and burnt down, cattle were looted as well as displacement of many residents of Al-Sanadra. The authorities (state/security) first ignored the case but later considered it after much pressure from citizens/public. The case was opened at Al-Abbasiya police office. The lawyers’ of the victims (Accusation panel) requested for the transfer of court to Khartoum and it was accepted.