Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir gets 2 years in a correctional facility after being convicted of corruption
The 75-year-old dictator will be sent to a correctional facility, as anyone over the age of 70 cannot go to prison under Sudanese law.Bashir was still held in the maximum-security Kobar Prison while he faced these charges -- and will return there on Saturday as he faces another upcoming trial.Omar al-Bashir Fast FactsThe former leader, who appeared in a metal cage inside a courtroom in the capital Khartoum, will next face a charge of plotting the 1989 coup that brought him to power.
While Sudanese law prohibits anyone over 70 facing the death penalty, it could still be invoked in some particularly serious crimes, regardless of age.Iron grip Bashir was ousted in a military coup in April following a lengthy popular uprising. Under his iron grip, an entire generation grew up in the shadow of war, where the threat of torture in infamous"ghost houses" was never far away, and press freedom nonexistent.
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