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Sudan's Bashir Charged Over Killings of Protesters

by VOA News

   Prosecutors in Sudan have charged former president Omar al-Bashir with
   involvement in the killing of anti-government protesters.

   In a statement Monday, the office of Sudan's prosecutor-general said
   Bashir and others "have been charged for inciting and participating in
   the killing of demonstrators."

   Sudan's military removed Bashir from power on April 11 after four
   months of large protests against the president and his iron-fisted
   rule.

   The rights group Physicians for Human Rights has estimated that
   Sudanese security forces killed more than 60 people during a failed
   crackdown on the protests.

   Bashir was transferred to a high-security prison in Khartoum several
   days after his ouster, according to relatives, and has not been seen in
   public since.