Khartoum — The opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) has charged security quarters of poisoning its leader Hassan Al-Turabi who was hospitalized on Saturday due to injuries he sustained a week ago while in detention at Kober Prison in Khartoum.
The veteran Islamist leader was detained on 17 January for the sixth time since he was ousted from power in 1999 following a schism in the ruling Islamist movement which he masterminded its seizure of power in a military coup in 1989.
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