nine men from darfur have been executed for the kidnapping of a sudanese newspaper columnist in 2006 . they were detained in a hospital in the capital , kampala , in front of the relatives of the editor , dr taha . it was initially thought that mrs osman had been killed by militant but a defence lawyer said an article in his papers had mobilized un groups . his decapitated body was found on a dirt road a day after he had been retrieved from his home in khartoum .
mohammed yassin was sudanese .