Khartoum-(SUNA) – The court of plotters of June 1989 coup, in its session today at the Institute of Judicial and Legal Sciences here, headed by Hon. Imad-Eddin al-Jak Fadl, the judge of the Supreme Court, has given the lawyers of the twenty-six defendants a period of two weeks to submit their requests in writing, after the court completed hearing the statements of the accused.
While the lawyers expressed their agreement to submit requests in accordance with Article (141)/1 of the Criminal Procedures Law to drop the case for absence of evidence leading to conviction of the accused, while the lawyer for accused (23) Engineer Omer Abdel-Maarouf, said that he would not submit a request because there is no evidence against the accused, and the matter is left to the court.
The court set the twenty-eighth of March to hold a procedural session to consider these requests, while the defendants have the option to attend or be absent from this procedural session.
In the same context, the court heard, at the beginning of its session, the statement of the eighth defendant, Mohamed al-Tayeb al-Khanjar, which he gave from inside Alia Medical Hospital to which the court moved last week, due to the defendant’s health condition.
Hon Fadl, the judge of the court, explained that the accused said that he was on the night of the coup in the music corps and with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and that he was not responsible for securing the area due to the presence of senior officers, just as he was not assigned to arrest anyone.
