KHARTOUM — The trial of Sudan’s ousted president Omar Al-Bashir and some of his former allies on charges of leading a military coup that brought the autocrat to power in 1989 has been adjourned until Aug.11, the judge leading the case said on Tuesday. State TV had begun broadcasting the judge opening the trial without showing footage of Bashir just an hour earlier. Al-Bashir has been jailed in Khartoum since he was toppled in April last year following mass protests against his 30-year rule. Other defendants include former allies of Bashir such as military officers and extremists, judicial sources said before the start of the trial. A Sudanese court handed Bashir a two-year sentence in December on corruption charges. He also faces trials and investigations over the killing of protesters. Bashir, 76, could face the death penalty if convicted over the 1989 Islamist-backed overthrow of the democratically elected government of prime minister Sadek Al-Mahdi. While the accused were kept in cages inside the courtroom, dozens of their family members were outside, many shouting "Allah-o-Akbar (God is Greatest)". It is the first time in the modern history of the Arab World that the architect of a coup goes on trial, although the man dubbed the true brain behind the military overthrow, Hassan Turabi of the National Islamic Front, died in 2016. The Khartoum trial came as Sudan"s post-revolution transitional government has launched a series of reforms in hopes of fully rejoining the international community. Sudan has also pledged to hand over Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on charges of war crimes and genocide in the Darfur conflict, which left 300,000 people dead and displaced 2.5 million in a scorched earth campaign against a 2003 insurgency. — Agencies