Monday, December 29, 2008

Sudan Man Denies Helping Darfur War Crimes Court

From Yahoo News/Reuters:

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A Sudanese man denied in court on Monday he had tried to pass sensitive documents about a Darfur war crimes suspect to the International Criminal Court.

Mohamed Alsary Ibrahim is the first person in Sudan to be prosecuted for cooperating with the ICC, which is pursuing a number of cases against Sudanese nationals relating to atrocities carried out in the country's violent west.

A Sudanese intelligence officer Omar Abdel last week told Khartoum north court that Ibrahim had been caught in a sting operation receiving confidential documents from a contact in one of Sudan's police forces.

The officer said Ibrahim had been trying to find documents to "fabricate a relationship" between Ahmed Haroun, Sudan's state minister for humanitarian affairs, and the pro-government Janjaweed militias that are accused of war crimes in Darfur.

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