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Libyan airplane hijacked to Sudan: 15 Eritreans sentenced to five years in jail

Khartoum, Sudan - Persons forced to go back to their country would have been tortured, according to UN's sources

Some among the Eritreans responsbile for the hijacking of a Libyan airplane towards Sudan (precisely, 15 persons out of 76) would have been sentenced to five years in jail by Khartoum’s Judge (see for details AVIONEWS). According to what competent judicial authorities would have released, such decision would have been considered as the requirements for a political asylum did not exist, even if some a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 102637
Rome, Italy, 09/02/2004 18:12
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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