SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan security forces crack down on protests, allegedly fire tear gas

20/2/2020: Multiple sources – Sudan security forces crack down on protests, allegedly fire tear gas

• AP

• Reuters

 Sudanese security forces used teargas and batons to disperse thousands of protesters demanding the reinstatement of army officers dismissed for refusing to crackdown on demonstrations against former president Omar al-Bashir.

 At least 17 people were wounded in the clashes according to the Sudan’s Doctors Committee, a group associated with the protesters.

 The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) called for the minister of the interior and the police general director to be sacked and replace them with “national elements who belong to the revolution.”

 The SPA also called for soldiers and military officers who had been “arbitrarily excluded from military service” to be reinstated, and for those who “protected and sided with the people’s revolution to be celebrated, promoted and given a leadership position.”