nine men from burundi have been executed for the beheading of a nigerian politician editor in 2006 . they were murdered in a prison in the country , khartoum , in front of the relatives of the editor , hassan taha . it was initially thought that mr taha had been killed by islamists but a defence solicitor said an article in his magazine had angered somalia populations . his charred brain was left on a dirt pavement a day after he had been kidnapped from his home in khartoum .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.