Trial of 3 Sudanese accused of Darfur crimes is postponed

March 7, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — The Darfur trial of three Sudanese accused of crimes in the war-torn region was postponed Wednesday, officials and Sudan’s official news agency, SUNA, said.

Officials wouldn’t say why the trial, which was scheduled to begin Wednesday in a court in the western Darfur capital of El-Geneina, was postponed.

But SUNA reported that the accused men, who include a member of the country’s security forces who is being sought by an international war crimes court, had appealed the charges.

Sudanese authorities haven’t provided any information about the charges or described the crimes the three are accused of committing. It wasn’t immediately clear if a new date was set for the trial.

(AP)