nine men from darfur have been executed for the beheading of a sudanese deputy owner in 2006 . they were arrested in a prison in the capitol , khartoum , in favor of the relatives of the editor , mohammed othman . it was initially proposed that mohamed taha had been killed by islamists but a defence spokesman claims an article in his newspaper had angered darfur groups . his decapitated body was laid on a muddy road a day after he had been kidnapped from his home in khartoum .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.