Amnesty calls on Sudan to investigate killing of student
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Amnesty International is calling on the Sudanese government to investigate the killing of an 18-year-old university student it says came at the hands of intelligence agents.
The London-based rights group said in a Wednesday statement that engineering student Abubakar Hassan Mohamed Taha was killed a day earlier in North Kordofan State by a gunshot wound to the head after intelligence agents opened fire on students marching peacefully to submit pro-opposition candidates for campus elections.
Amnesty's regional director Muthoni Wanyeki described the attack as "yet another shocking episode in a series of human rights violations against university students across Sudan and underlines the government's determination to put out the last vestiges of dissent."
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Amnesty says another 27 students were wounded in the shooting, five of them seriously.