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Jailed head of Sudan's outlawed ex-ruling party to be freed -lawyer

FILE PHOTO: Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Ahmed Abdelaziz Ghandour talks to the press during a joint news conference with Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (not pictured) in Khartoum, Sudan March 11, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo

The jailed head of Sudan's former ruling party is be freed, his lawyer told Reuters on Thursday, becoming the most senior figure from the deposed regime of Omar al-Bashir to have charges of crimes against the state dropped since a coup last October.

Ibrahim Ghandour, who also served as foreign minister in ex-President Bashir's outlawed National Congress Party (NCP), was found innocent of undermining the constitution, financing terrorism, and plotting the assassination of former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok along with other attacks, lawyer Abdelrahman Alkhalifa said.

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