SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Lawyers question legal grounds of ERC arrests

11/2/2022: Radio Dabanga - Lawyers question legal grounds of ERC arrests

Radio Dabanga report that Sudanese lawyers questioned the validity of legal measures taken against members of the now-suspended Tamkeen committee after three committee members were arrested after the Ministry of Finance launched a complaint related to ‘breach of trust’.

The committee recently instructed the removal of dozens of employees from the Ministry of Finance that held ties with the former regime of Omar al-Bashir.

Sidgi Kaballo, a leader in Sudan's Communist Party explained that, since the coup, military authorities have “re-appointed a second wave of Islamist Movement members and others affiliated with the former regime in all service institutions, banks, and justice institutions,” effectively “re-empowering” them.

Al-Taher Abu Haja, the media advisor to military commander-in-chief Abdulfattah al-Burhan criticised attempts to frame the detentions as political.