SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan disbands National Congress Party, overturns moral policing law

29/11/19: Multiple sources – Sudan disbands National Congress Party, overturns moral policing law

AP, by Noha Elhennawy

AFP

Times, by Jane Flanagan

 Sudan’s transitional government announced it overturned a moral policing law that criminalized revealing clothing for women, and moved to dissolve Sudan’s former ruling National Congress Party (NCP), fulfilling two major demands from the country’s pro-democracy protesters.

 The women’s rights activist Hadia Hasaballah told the Times that the repeal of the law “is a culmination of the courageous struggles of women for 30 years.”

 Prime Minister Hamdok tweeted that the bill dismantling al-Bashir’s NCP party is not the outcome of “a quest of vengeance but rather to preserve and restore the dignity of our people who have grown weary of the injustice under the hands of NCP, who have looted & hindered the development of this great nation.”

 Sudan’s Justice Minister Nasr-Eddin Abdul-Bari announced that the law passed by the interim government would transfer all assets and funds of al-Bashir’s party to the state treasury.