Sudan: Al-Bashir and army officers are formally charged with carrying out the 1989 coup

On Tuesday, the isolated Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, 15 officers of the armed forces and eight civilians received a formal accusation by the Public Prosecution of them of undermining the constitutional order, according to the Attorney General and a source from the Bashir family.

"In a letter addressed to the accused, the head of the investigation and investigation committee of the June 30, 1989 coup, Prosecutor Saif al-Yazal Muhammad Sarri, said in a letter to the accused," It was established that preliminary evidence establishes the accusation, in accordance with Article 56 of the Criminal Procedure Law of 1991 ".

He continued, "I decide to charge the accused, according to Article 96 Climax and 78 of the Penal Code of 1983 read with Article 54a of the Armed Forces Act of 1986."

For his part, a source from the Al-Bashir family - who asked not to be named - said that the accused had received the accusation officially on Tuesday, and their defense lawyers will submit the appeal on Sunday.

He pointed out that the accusation included the leaders of the Popular Congress Party - founded by the late Hassan al-Turabi - Ali al-Hajj, Ibrahim al-Senussi and Omar Abdel-Marouf, in addition to the leaders of the former regime, Ali Othman, Nafi Ali Nafi`, Awad al-Jaz, Ahmed Muhammad Ali al-Fashshwiyeh, and the Secretary-General of the Islamic Movement Zubair Muhammad al-Hassan .

The charges also included Lieutenant-General Bakri Hassan Salih, the deputy of Al-Bashir, Major General Tijani Adam Al-Tahir, Brigadier Othman Ahmed Hassan, and others.

In May, Sudanese lawyers submitted a legal petition to the Attorney General in Khartoum against al-Bashir and his aides, on charges of undermining the constitutional system by plotting a military coup in 1989, and then taking power. In the same month, the prosecution launched an investigation into the communication.

It is reported that on June 30, 1989 Al-Bashir overthrew the government of the then Prime Minister, Sadiq al-Mahdi, and took over as Chairman of the leadership council of what was known as the National Salvation Revolution, and during the same year he became President of Sudan.

Al-Bashir is spending two years in a social reform institution, due to his age (76 years), after he was convicted by a Sudanese court last December on charges of financial corruption.