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A Sudanese diplomat says President Omar al-Bashir has left Nigeria after human rights lawyers and civil rights activists demanded his arrest.

Al-Bashir has been indicted for genocide and war crimes in Darfur.

The diplomat who would not give his name told The Associated Press that al-Bashir left at 3 p.m. Monday, less than 24 hours after he arrived and in the middle of a two-day summit ending Tuesday.

He denied that al-Bashir’s hasty departure was related to demands for his arrest. Human rights lawyers filed a lawsuit Monday to try to compel the government to detain Sudan’s president and surrender him to the International Criminal Court for trial.

Nigeria’s government says it followed an African Union instruction that its 53 member states not arrest al-Bashir.

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Sudanese officials say the government has released seven political prisoners, including a female politician, under an amnesty declared by President Omar al-Bashir.

The official news agency says the prisoners were released Monday at midnight from Kober prison in Sudan‘s capital Khartoum, after they were held there for over two months without trial.

The detainees were all involved in the preparation and signing of the “New Dawn Charter,” a document calling for the use of force to oust longtime leader al-Bashir. The document was signed in Kampala, Uganda, early this year.

An unspecified number of politicians, and military and intelligence officers remain in jail accused of plotting to overthrow al-Bashir, who seized power in a military coup in 1989.

Al-Bashir has said he intends to step down in 2015.

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