Key facts
- Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been transferred to a military-run hospital in Khartoum for medical treatment.
- Bashir's lawyer, Mohamed Alhassan Alameen, stated that Bashir requires diagnosis and treatment outside Sudan.
- Bashir's family described his need for medical treatment abroad as critical and urgent.
- Bashir was serving a prison sentence for corruption and illicit financing when the civil war began.
- Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges including genocide.
Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been transferred to a military-run hospital in Khartoum for medical treatment, with his lawyer stating that he requires care outside the country. Bashir, 82, was toppled by the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2019 after months of popular uprising.
The RSF and the army later clashed over integration plans during a transition to civilian rule, leading to a civil war that has devastated much of Sudan for the past three-and-a-half years. Bashir had been moved from prison to a hospital prior to the war's outbreak and was subsequently transferred to Merowe in northern Sudan under military guard.
His lawyer, Mohamed Alhassan Alameen, told Reuters that Bashir was sent to Khartoum for medical tests and exhibited symptoms requiring diagnosis and treatment abroad. Bashir's family issued a statement on Wednesday emphasizing the critical and urgent nature of his need for overseas medical care, though official permission for his transfer abroad had not been granted. The specific medical condition Bashir is suffering from remains unclear, and Sudan's military did not immediately respond to requests for comment.