Khartoum: postponing trial of spying networking

Eye-witnesses said that the trial of one Tunisian and six Sudanese who were arrested for being suspected in being members in a network accused of introducing Sudan as an Islamic state sponsoring terrorism, was opened on Thursday and postponed immediately to the second of August.

The chairman of the court Muhammad Surr al-Khitm decided to postpone the trial because of the absence of the main accused persons. No explanation was given for the reasons of not bringing the chief of the network the Tunisian Ali Bin Mustafa Bin Hamad to the court. All other accused persons were brought before the court to attend the session. They are all Sudanese and returned back to the prison in conclusion of a hearing session which lasted only for few minutes.

The judge said that the hearing session will also continue on August 7 and 9.

The Sudanese intelligence system arrested the accused men in June for being suspected in being members in a networking introduced Sudan as a country sponsoring Islamic terrorism, according to the Sudanese press.

The Sudanese official paper " al-Anbaa " said that the seven men gave the Tunisian intelligence " wrong information" stating that Sudan supports Islamic terrorism.