Sudanese opposition politicians and members of the military jailed since July are to face criminal charges in an alleged coup attempt, Sudan's Justice Minister said Monday.
The 31 suspects, almost half of them former or active military officers, could face charges of sedition, inciting hatred against the state, and plotting a rebellion from inside the army, Justice Minister Mohamed Ali al-Mardi said in a statement.
The detainees, which include a leading opposition politician and former regime insider, Mubarak al-Fadil, have been held without charges since a police sweep in July. The London-based rights group Amnesty International has said several were tortured to extract confessions. Some of the detainees have since begun a hunger strike to protest their conditions.
Al-Mardi said the Justice Ministry has now received the relevant documentation from the courts, and will evaluate on whom to press charges.
"Afterward, the attorney will decide who will be brought to the court of justice and under what article of the penal code," the minister was quoted as saying by the official Sudan News Agency.
Al-Mardi said the relevant charges should be pressed "within a week."
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