SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga - Sudan coup: Detentions continue, internet remains closed

28/10/2021: Radio Dabanga - Sudan coup: Detentions continue, internet remains closed

Radio Dabanga report on the military’s wave of arrests, as blocked internet services impede the work of the UN’s humanitarian agency.

Sovereignty Council member Mohamed al-Taayshi and members of his office were held following statements he made against the coup, alongside Hassan Nasrallah, an advisor to Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.

The Sudanese Teachers Committee announced the detention of its president, Yasin Hasan Abdelkarim. The authorities also held journalists Fayez al-Seleik and Maher Abuljoukh.

The Sudanese Journalists Network condemned the closing of telecommunications and the internet and the targeting of journalists “in a way that recalls the practises of the former regime,” which “enables the militiamen behind the coup regime, its security apparatus and its shadow brigades, to commit even more crimes against the Sudanese and the revolution, and hide evidence that proves their involvement in mass attacks like the massacre of the [June 3, 2019] sit-in”.