Wanted for War Crimes, Sudan’s Bashir Is Found Guilty of Graft
- Court sentences former leader to two years of rehabilitation
- Judgment caps four months of hearings for 75-year-old
Security measures around the court house of the trial of Omar al-Bashir, in Khartoun on Dec. 14.
Photographer: Mahmoud Hajaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Sudan’s ousted leader Omar al-Bashir was sentenced to two years in a rehabilitation facility after being found guilty of corruption and illicitly possessing millions of dollars in foreign currencies.
The judgment by the court in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, caps about four months of hearings for the 75-year-old. He’s been in custody since April, when the army forced him from power amid deadly nationwide protests sparked by an economic crisis in the North African nation.