Sudan’s ousted strongman Bashir goes on trial over ’89 coup

Sudan’s former president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, went on trial Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago. Bashir, 76, could face the death penalty if convicted over the 1989 Islamist-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government of prime minister Sadek al-Mahdi. Along with Bashir, 27 co-accused were in the dock at the Khartoum court house,…