SUDAN NEWS ALERT: AP - Official: Sudan to hand over al-Bashir for genocide trial

11/1/2020: AP - Official: Sudan to hand over al-Bashir for genocide trial, by Samy Magdy

AP’s report on Sudan’s transitional government agreeing to hand over Omar al-Bashir to the ICC, features quotes from al-Bashir’s legal team and rebel leaders who have pressed for the decision.

Al-Bashir’s lawyer, Mohammed al-Hassan, warned that handing him over would have “dire political and security repercussions” for Sudan. He called for Abdelfattah al-Burhan to “keep his obligation that al-Bashir or any Sudanese won’t be handed over to the ICC.”

Rebel negotiator Ibrahim Mousa labelled the agreement a “big breakthrough.” Another rebel leader, al-Murzi Abuel-Kassem of the Justice and Equality Movement, hailed it as “an important day for the Sudanese people, particularly the displaced and refugees in the camps.”