A/HRC/6/7 page 37 We attach herewith some court rulings issued in 2005 that were not brought to the attention of the Special Rapporteur and the Human Rights Council, together with some rulings delivered in 2006. 1.3 Children and armed conflict We should like to provide the following examples of legal protection of children: On 3 May 2007, a Niyala court sentenced defendants Abd al-Rahman Zakariya and Ahmad Abdullah Sulayman to death for murder and robbery. The appeal court overturned the death sentences, on 10 June 2007, because the two defendants had been under 18 when they committed the crime. It ordered that they be placed in a reformatory. At a regular session held on 20 March 2006, the Azhari Criminal Court, which was hearing the Suba case involving an attack upon a police station and the killing of 16 policemen, referred 3 of the defendants, who were minors, to a juvenile court. The Dukkah General Criminal Court in Qadarif, in eastern Sudan, sentenced a woman called Fatimah Adam Yahya to death under article 130 (premeditated murder). Since there were legal documents proving that the woman was a minor, the Advisory Council wrote to the Department of Legal Assistance to request leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court for an annulment of the sentence. The Al-Damazin General Criminal Court convicted a man called Najm al-Din Qasim al-Sayyid and sentenced him to death under article 130 (premeditated murder). Counsel for Mr. Al-Sayyid appealed the verdict on the grounds that his client had been under 18 when he committed the crime. The appeal court ordered that a medical examination be conducted to determine the age of the convicted man when the offence was committed. Based on the results of the examination, it upheld the guilty verdict and the sentence, as did a higher court. Counsel for the convicted man appealed to the Constitutional Court, which is still hearing the case. Three of the five judges have delivered their opinion in writing. A workshop on juvenile justice was held on 26-27 June 2007, in cooperation with the Children’s Rights Monitor organization and the United Nations Gender Unit. The workshop was designed for judges and prosecutors and 50 participants were given training. A workshop on the demobilization of child soldiers is being held in September 2007 by the Advisory Council for Human Rights, in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence, the Disarmament and Reintegration Commission and the National Council for Child Welfare, and with the participation and support of UNICEF. The event is designed for 30 members of the regular forces and 30 members of the joint forces. The Advisory Council paid a visit to the Al-Jarif children’s reformatory, which houses 63 children, 13 of them girls. It investigated reform measures and the offences committed by the children, ranging from theft to murder and rape. The Advisory Council helped with the recruitment of a social worker to work at the reformatory. The children were also informed about the Children’s Unit set up at the Department of Legal Assistance to provide assistance in cases involving minors.