The autocrat who ruled for three decades, Omar al-Bashir, is now behind bars, but many who served in his security forces have legal immunity from prosecution. “The killers are known, we want justice,” said Samah Ahmed, 27, the sister of Tarek, who was killed on December 21 last year. The protests swept across the African nation and by April, they had toppled Bashir — but Tarek never witnessed that triumphant moment. “I tried to call him, ‘Tarek, Tarek’, and called him by his nickname,” she said. However, it did not specify whether any requests for the lifting of immunity had already been made to the various security forces.

Source: The Guardian December 26, 2019 03:33 UTC