More opposition members detained in Khartoum
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detained Khaled Omar Yousef, the deputy head of the Sudanese Congress Party, and Akram Abdelwahab, a member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, on Friday. They have been taken to an unknown destination.
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detained Khaled Omar Yousef, the deputy head of the Sudanese Congress Party, and Akram Abdelwahab, a member of the Arab Socialist Baath Party, on Friday. They have been taken to an unknown destination.
Yousef was detained at 4pm from his house, after he returned from a public rally in El Dein in Khartoum. He held a speech, calling for a mass mobilisation in Sudan to fight the current regime, in which the party's deputy head called the regime corrupt.
Bakri Youssef, the political secretary of the Congress Party, added that Akram Abdelwahab was detained for publishing posters on several walls in Omdurman. The posters condemned the government and its policies.
On Wednesday, the political secretary of the Sudanese Communist Party was detained by NISS officers.
Earlier this week, Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) threatened to withdraw from the National Dialogue unless the powers of the NISS are curbed, and recommendations on fundamental freedoms implemented.
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