{"id":189911,"date":"2011-11-01T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/harun-testifies-against-jem-leaders\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T22:06:00","slug":"harun-testifies-against-jem-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/harun-testifies-against-jem-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Harun testifies against JEM leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JEM questions the validity of the South Kordofan governor&#8217;s testimony who is wanted by the ICC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Harun, the governor of South Kordofan, testified against leaders of the Darfuri opposition group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in a Khartoum court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Among the JEM leaders facing trial are Tom Hamid Tutu, Abraham Almaz \u2013 both of whom were captured in West Darfur last year. They are both accused of waging war against the nation and if convicted will face either life imprisonment or a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Harun himself has an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of war crimes in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>Jibril Adam Bilal, spokesperson of the JEM, questioned the vailidity of Harun&#8217;s testimony: \u201c He is himself wanted for war crimes. How can he testify against someone else? The testimony doesn&#8217;t stand any grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jibril told Radio Dabanga, \u201cHarun is wanted for carrying out crimes against the people of Darfur and Nuba mountains. 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They are both accused of waging war against the nation and if convicted will face either life imprisonment or a death sentence.Ahmed Harun himself has an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague on charges of war crimes in Darfur.Jibril Adam Bilal, spokesperson of the JEM, questioned the vailidity of Harun&#8217;s testimony: \u201c He is himself wanted for war crimes. How can he testify against someone else? The testimony doesn&#8217;t stand any grounds.\u201dJibril told Radio Dabanga, \u201cHarun is wanted for carrying out crimes against the people of Darfur and Nuba mountains. If his testimony is accepted by the court, then it means that there is no justice in Sudan.\u201dJibril condemned the repeated attempts made by the government to prosecute prisoners of war. \u201cThis breaches the customs and international charters regarding the rights of prisoners,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Harun testifies against JEM leaders - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/harun-testifies-against-jem-leaders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harun testifies against JEM leaders - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JEM questions the validity of the South Kordofan governor&#039;s testimony who is wanted by the ICCAhmed Harun, the governor of South Kordofan, testified against leaders of the Darfuri opposition group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in a Khartoum court on Tuesday.Among the JEM leaders facing trial are Tom Hamid Tutu, Abraham Almaz \u2013 both of whom were captured in West Darfur last year. 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