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Al-Bashir refuses to attend trial, authorities complicit in smuggling prisoners

Omar al-Bashir, 77-year old deposed Sudanese ex-president, is on standard prostate and high blood pressure medications as per an informed source, assuring the imprisoned deposed leader has no need to be at a hospital.

AlTaghyeer: Amal Muhammad al-Hassan

The official spokesman in the trial of the plotters of the 1989 coup, Al-Moez Hazrat, revealed to AlTaghyeer that the former president Omar al-Bashir, overthrown in 2019, has not attended a trial session starting from the October 25th 2021 coup until now.

The deposed president was admitted on January 20, 2022 as a suspect COVID patient, and according to medical sources, the result of the former president’s COVID test came back negative.

Al-Bashir has not left the hospital since that date, and according to informed sources, he practices his daily activities normally, and eats, drinks and sleeps normally.

The doctor in charge of treating him since his presidency until this moment, Tariq al-Hadi, reportedly visits him from time to time.

A medical source described the visits as “social,” due to the absence of a pathological illness that requires follow-up.

“The video that was previously leaked of him [al-Bashir] inside the hospital shows his excellent health,” the source said.

Hotel Room

A report by the Unified Office of Physicians issued last March criticized the medical care afforded to al-Bashir and his former deputy that had allowed them to stay at “military medical hotel establishment at Alia Hospital.”

The statement revealed the presence of the deposed in a VIP room number 406, while his former deputy, Bakri Hassan Saleh, was staying in the “royal room” No. 402.

The statement condemned the doctors using their positions to support the remnants of the regime in evading justice.

The ousted President Omar al-Bashir, along with 27 symbols of his former, now outlawed, National Congress Party, are facing trial for plotting and carrying out a military coup against the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi on 1989.

The coup, a successful endeavor, allowed al-Bashir and cohorts to assume presidency of Sudan until he was overthrown by a popular revolution in 2019.

Al-Bashir was locked up in Kober Central Prison, from which he was released to the Alia Hospital, 4 months after the military coup of October 2021.

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