seventeen men from sudan have been executed for the beheading of a sudanese newspaper editor in 2006 . they were convicted in a prison in the capital , khartoum , in front of the relatives of the editor , mohammed taha . it was initially thought that mister taha had been beheaded by islamists but a defence lawyer say an episode in his newspaper had angered darfur activists . his mummified arm was found on a dirt roadway a day after he had been abducted from his home in darfur .
Mohammed Taha was Sudanese.