Cairo: In order to re-arrest a man who was previously convicted of killing a U.S. diplomat in Sudan 15 years ago, the United States asked the Sudanese government on Thursday.
Abdel-Raouf A US Agency for International Development official named John Granville and his Sudanese driver, Abdel Rahman Abbas, were both murdered by Abu Zaid, a Sudanese man who was freed on January 30. State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that Abu Zaid's release was based on untrue assertions.
According to the Sudanese, the Granville family did not extend forgiveness, according to Price. "We demand that the Sudanese government use every legal tool at its disposal to overturn this judgement." Price emphasised that the imprisonment and sentence of Abu Zaid were not included in the 2020 agreement between the United States and Sudan.
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In 2020, Sudan agreed to pay $335 million to settle claims for damages brought before American courts in connection with the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the 2000 attack on the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen that claimed the lives of 17 sailors, and the murder of Granville.
The agreement was reached between the former transitional government of Sudan and the Trump administration in order to prevent any further compensation lawsuits against the African nation being brought in American courts.
Granville, 33, was working to put into effect the 2005 peace accord that put an end to the more than 20-year civil war between the north and south of Sudan. Granville and Abbas were killed, along with him, when gunmen in another vehicle intercepted him as he was driving home from a New Year's Eve party.
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Along with Abu Zaid, three other men received hanging sentences for the assault.
According to a Sudanese notice to the international police agency, Interpol, the four escaped from prison in June 2010 and engaged in a shootout that left one Sudanese police officer dead and another injured in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum. Weeks later, Abu Zaid was apprehended again and brought back to Kubar Prison. The three additional men weren't detained again.
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Price stated that other top diplomats would be pressing the Sudanese government in the upcoming weeks and that the Sudanese ambassador to the United States had been summoned.