The two children sentenced among the group of 88, Gadim Hamdoum Hamid and Kabashi Alayan, are both aged 14. All the accused were tried without proper legal representation and some were reportedly tortured before trial. Emergency Courts were established in Darfur under a 1998 State of Emergency, which grants wide powers to circumvent Sudan's Criminal Procedures Act. The State of Emergency is also in breach of international standards of fair trials.
An appeal by the group to the Chief Justice of Darfur was rejected on 11 August. They must now appeal to the High Court in El Obeid before 26 August. If this fails, their last recourse will be the Constitutional Court.
"The government of Sudan must now ensure that the sentences are not carried out. It should put an end to this cruelty," Amnesty International said, adding that the international community should send out the strongest signals of its opposition to the carrying out of the executions."
An appeal by the group to the Chief Justice of Darfur was rejected on 11 August. They must now appeal to the High Court in El Obeid before 26 August. If this fails, their last recourse will be the Constitutional Court.
"The government of Sudan must now ensure that the sentences are not carried out. It should put an end to this cruelty," Amnesty International said, adding that the international community should send out the strongest signals of its opposition to the carrying out of the executions."