nine men from darfur have been executed for the beheading of a sudanese newspaper editor in 2006 . they were executed in a prison in the capital , khartoum , in front of the relatives of the president , mohammed taha . it was initially thought that mr taha had been beheaded by islamists but a government lawyer alleged an attack in his newspaper had attacked darfur communities . his blindfolded body was recovered on a dirt roadway a week after he had been abducted from his home in ababa .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.