SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters - Jailed head of Sudan's outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed -lawyer

7/4/2022: Reuters - Jailed head of Sudan's outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed -lawyer

Reuters report that Ibrahim Ghandour, the jailed head of Sudan's former ruling Islamist National Congress Party (NCP) is to be freed, becoming the most senior figure from the deposed regime of Omar al-Bashir to have charges of crimes against the state dropped since the October 2021 coup.

Ghandour, formerly al-Bashir’s foreign minister, was found innocent of undermining the constitution, financing terrorism, and plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with other attacks.

Two other NCP leaders, Anas Omer and Kamaleldin Ibrahim, were among 12 others cleared of the same charges.

In addition, dozens of Islamist officials in state media, the foreign service, justice ministry, and elsewhere have been returned to service following court orders. They were initially fired by the Tamkeen committee – a taskforce working to dismantle al-Bashir regime's political, bureaucratic, and financial apparatus - which was placed under review by coup leader General Abdelfattah al-Burhan.