1st Execution Staged by Sudanese Junta
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Sudanese businessman was hanged Sunday for illegally possessing $115,000 in foreign currency in the first reported execution under the junta that seized power in June.
Magdy Mahgoub was executed at Khartoum’s Kobar prison in defiance of a strongly worded appeal from the United States seeking reprieves for people sentenced to death by military courts.
A doctor accused of leading a strike by colleagues is also under sentence of death along with other currency offenders and an Egyptian convicted of possessing heroin.
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