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Six Sudanese men have been hanged in Sudan's capital on Thursday for their various roles in a demonstration staged at a refugee camp, officials and witnesses said. They were convicted for killing 13 policemen in a deadly clash between police and residents in 2005 at the Soba Aradi Camp in Khartoum.
The clashes erupted in May, 2005 a few months after the end of Sudan's north-south civil war, as police tried to force refugees out of the Soba Aradi Camp in Khartoum, the official news agency SUNA reported.

Thirty civilians and 14 security forces were killed in the event. Most of those arrested for violence were released; except the six people who were sentenced to death.

The six men were hanged on January 14 in Kober prison in northern Khartoum after the appeal process was finally exhausted, according to SUNA.

However, Amnesty International has denounced the executions and said the men might have been tortured into admitting their offence.

Tawanda Hondora, deputy Africa director at Amnesty International, told media "Six men have lost their lives due to the courts' blatant failure to ensure their right to a fair trial".