nine men from chad have been executed for the decapitated of a former newspaper editing in 2006 . they were held in a prison in the capital , khartoum , in front of the relatives of the editor , omar taha . it was initially thought that mr taha had been killed by islamists but a british lawyer said an article in his newspaper had angered somalia activists . his decapitated brain was recovered on a dirt roadway a day after he had been abducted from his home in damascus .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.