Lawyers questioned the validity of the legal measures taken against members of the now-suspended Empowerment Removal Committee* (ERC), who were detained on Wednesday. An adviser to Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), refused to call the arrests ‘political’.
Governor of North Darfur Nimir Abdelrahman said that the third meeting of the High Council for Security Arrangements gave the leaders of the rebel movements that signed the Juba Peace Agreement seven days to move their forces from the towns to the ‘areas of support’, as stipulated in the Peace Juba Agreement.
Three BBC Arabic journalists, who were briefly detained in Sudan on Monday while covering pro-democracy demonstrations in the capital, Khartoum, have been released. “A BBC team were briefly detained by Sudanese authorities while working in Khartoum. We are glad that the authorities were able to resolve this situation quickly,” the BBC said in a statement.
In a telephone call on Monday, US Senator Chris Coons cautioned Sudan’s coup leader and head of the Sovereignty Council, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, that there is “strong bipartisan support” in the US Congress for “legislation that would impose targeted sanctions on those undermining the democratic transition in Sudan”.
Farmer Daheeya Ibrahim (45) was shot dead by unknown people near Adaka on January 31. a village in Gadier locality, about 30 km west of Abu Jubeiha in South Kordofan. A murder case was reported at Kologi police but, the police did not investigate further. A woman youth and trade union activist was detained for …
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