nine men from khartoum have been executed for the beheading of a sudanese government editor in 2006 . they were hanged in a prison in the north , khartoum , in favour of the relatives of the editor , omar tariq . it was generally thought that mr taha had been killed by islamists but a defence lawyer said an essay in his newspaper had upset darfur people . his gagged form was seen on a public road a second after he had been extracted from his home in khartoum .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.