SUDAN?S dissident leader Hassan al-Turabi is being kept in solitary confinement in Khartoum’s Cooper prison, his wife said after visiting him. “The Sheikh and fellow detainees are kept in solitary confinement but are allowed to go out in the prison’s yard to perform their five-times-a-day prayers collectively,” she said. Sudanese security forces detained Turabi, the former right-hand-man of President Omar al-Beshir, who was purged from power around a year ago, after his party forged a deal with southern rebels fighting Beshir. – AFP