Sudan's attorney-general said today he expected 72 men charged with attempting a coup in Khartoum would be sentenced to death because the evidence against them was so clear. A number of the men are members of the opposition Islamist Popular Congress (PCP), whose leader Hassan Al Turabi was jailed last September after the authorities accused his party of plotting to overthrow the government. Attorney General Mohamed Farid said Turabi would be released with all other political prisoners as soon as emergency law was lifted in Sudan - a step officials expect to follow the promulgation of a new constitution around May.Farid said the 72 men, whose full trial will begin on April 2, had confessed to a legal committee in his office to plotting to overthrow the government. The men are charged with waging war against the state. "I expect that in these cases there is clear enough evidence and I expect that the death sentence will be issued for them," Farid told Reuters in his office. He stressed the sentence would be up to the court to decide. "Whether the court will decide this and whether they will implement the sentence after is up to them."