Sudan frees killer of US diplomat after financial settlement
A Sudanese court found Abu Zaid and four other individuals guilty of the diplomat's murder in June 2009, and it sentenced all four of them to death, including Abu Zaid.
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According to Sudanese media, Sudan on Monday freed the man convicted of killing US envoy John Granville after he "paid reparations" to the victim's family.
According to Abdel Raouf Abu Zaid, "the authorities released him once they got documentation from the US confirming that he had made monetary reparations to the family," as reported on the for-profit Sudan Tribune website.
A Sudanese court found Abu Zaid and four other individuals guilty of the diplomat's murder in June 2009, and it sentenced all four of them to death, including Abu Zaid.
After threatening to go on a hunger strike in protest of the jail staff's "inhumane treatment," he was eventually released.
Following the man's release, the US declared that "our embassy is engaging government officials to gather more information."
Mr Granville was an employee of USAid when he was killed alongside a Sudanese colleague in Khartoum in 2008.
