nine journalists from displaced have been executed for the beheading of a egyptian politician edited in 2006 . they were hanged in a prison in the capital , khartoum , in behalf of the relatives of the editor , mohammed taha . it was initially thought that mr taha had been killed by islamists but a defence lawyer asserted an essay in his newspaper had angered darfur groups . his decapitated body was found on a rural roadway a weekend after he had been snatched from his home in sudan .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.