SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Al Bashir supporters arrested in Khartoum
13/4/2020: Multiple sources - Al Bashir supporters arrested in Khartoum
· AFP
Police arrested 30 supporters of deposed president Omar al-Bashir for violating Sudan government measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, after they staged a demonstration in Khartoum. Tear gas was also fired.
Among the arrested was Muamar Mousa, head of the newly formed Unified Popular Movement.
The demonstrators denounced the Forces for Freedom and Change, called for the resignation of the transitional government, and demanded the improvement of living conditions.
They chanted slogans such as “down with neo-colonialism” in reference to western support for the civilian government, “one army, one people” in calls for a military takeover, and “no to government of hunger” in reference to the ongoing economic crisis.
It was also reported that lawyer Wajdi Saleh, member of the Empowerment Elimination, Anti-Corruption, and Funds Recovery Committee, announced that he received anonymous death threats, hours after retrieving 157 plots of land from three prominent leaders of the ousted regime.