A Sudanese court convicts former president Omar al-Bashir on corruption charges and sentences him to two years of detention in a reform facility.
Ahead of Saturday's verdict, hundreds of supporters of the Islamist ex-president gathered in streets near the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum.
Troops and military vehicles were deployed in the area, blocking access to the palace and the defence ministry, and there was a heavy security presence at the court.Dressed in traditional white robes and a turban, Bashir watched silently from inside a metal defendant's cage while the judge, Al-Sadiq Abdelrahman, read out the verdict on Saturday.
Bashir remains wanted by the International Criminal Court, which issued arrest warrants against him in 2009 and 2010 on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's restive Darfur region. Several other judicial cases have been launched in Sudan against Bashir. In May he was charged with incitement and involvement in the killing of protesters, and this week he was summoned for questioning over his role in the 1989 military coup that brought him to power.
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