Sudan’s military again detains International Criminal Court fugitive Haroun, lawyers say
- SHENDI, Sudan -- Sudan’s military authorities on Sunday once again detained a former senior Islamist official who is wanted by the International Criminal Court over atrocities related to the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s, two defense lawyers said.
- Ahmed Haroun, a senior security official during the rule of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir, and later chairman of the former ruling National Congress Party, was detained in Sudan’s eastern province of Kassala, according to two lawyers on his defense team.
- The lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief t
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- SHENDI, Sudan -- Sudan’s military authorities on Sunday once again detained a former senior Islamist official who is wanted by the International Criminal Court over atrocities related to the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s, two defense lawyers said.
- Ahmed Haroun, a senior security official during the rule of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir, and later chairman of the former ruling National Congress Party, was detained in Sudan’s eastern province of Kassala, according to two lawyers on his defense team.
- The lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief t
Sources: ABC News