Hanged Sudanese 'may be innocent'
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7997641.stm
Lobby group Amnesty International has condemned as "outrageous" the hanging of nine Sudanese men convicted of beheading a newspaper editor in 2006.
"They were arbitrarily arrested, tortured and then subjected to an unfair trial," said the body's deputy Africa director Tawanda Hondora.
They were hanged in a prison in the capital, Khartoum, in front of relatives of the editor, Mohammed Taha.
The men, from Darfur, were apparently upset by an article in Mr Taha's paper....Mr Taha's al-Wifaq newspaper had angered members of the Darfur community by downplaying the scale of rape in the Darfur conflict and insulting women from the region.
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