Lawyers walk out of al-bashir trial in protest

Most lawyers working for Sudan’s ousted president Omar al-bashir and other defendants walked out of his trial over a 1989 coup in protest at alleged bias by the prosecutor general.

Dozens of lawyers, in a hearing broadcast on Sudanese television, left the courtroom after Tagelsir al-hebr, the prosecutor, read out the charges.

Mr Bashir and 27 others face accuastions of undermining constitutional order and use of military force to commit a crime.