The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet described the military takeover of power in Sudan as “deeply disturbing” in her address to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today. She said that the coup “betrays the courageous and inspiring revolution of 2019″. Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Maryam El Sadig El Mahdi …
Dozens of people, including lawyers, politicians, government officials and professionals have been arbitrarily detained, and some allegedly tortured, and an ongoing campaign against revolutionaries across Sudan by army and militia forces since the military coup seized power on October 25.
The campaign of civil disobedience proclaimed by the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) after a military coup led by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, former chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, seized power on October 25, is being sustained by resistance committees, professional organisations, and trade unions across the country, causing many essential sector and institutions …
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The civilian political forces of Eastern Sudan issued a statement today denouncing the military coup as “an attempt to commit national suicide” and “a violation of the law”, calling on the public “in the East and throughout the country to engage in civil disobedience and demonstrate by all legitimate means until the surrender of the …
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The international community has set in motion several initiatives for mediation between the civilian transitional partners behind Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, and the leaders of the military coup led by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, former chairman of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, that seized power on October 25, to address the current political crisis in Sudan.