nine men from darfur have been assassinated for the beheading of a sudanese daily columnist in 2006 . they were killed in a prison in the capital , asmara , in service of the niece of the founder , mohammed tareq . it was initially proposed that inspector taha had been killed by islamists but a state barrister stated an article in his publications had angered darfur groups . his decapitated body was found on a dirt road a day after he had been stolen from his village in khartoum .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.