SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan crisis: Thousands demand justice over protester killings, call for new judicial appointments

12/9/19: Multiple sources – Sudan crisis: Thousands demand justice over protester killings, call for new judicial appointments

• BBC

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

• AP, by Noha Elhennawy

• Sudan Tribune

 In the first protests since Abdalla Hamdok was appointed prime minister, thousands of Sudanese rallied in Khartoum to demand the chief of the judiciary and general prosecutor be removed, because of alleged ties to Omar al-Bashir.

 The protesters said that they hope that new appointments will lead to the prosecution of security forces blamed for deaths during demonstrations against al-Bashir and against the military council that initially replaced him.

 In June, the military council dismissed public prosecutor Awaleed Sayed Ahmed Mahmoud and named an interim replacement, after Mahmoud announced that he would investigate the June 3 massacre.

 “Judicial and legal reforms should be a top priority during the transitional period; however, we have seen inaction on the part of sovereign council to appoint a new head of the judiciary and a new general prosecutor,” Ahmed Rabie, a leader of the Sudanese Professionals’ Association, said.