Opposition refuse to apologise for Sudan Appeal

01/03/2015 12:05

Faroug Abu Eisa, head of the National Consensus Forces (NCF), and Dr Amin Mekki Madani, chairman of the Civil Society Initiative (CSI), will not offer their apologies for signing the Sudan Appeal.
Bakri Yousef, head of the Media Committee of the NCF, a coalition of opposition parties, stressed to Dabanga that the signatories “will never apologise for demanding democracy for Sudan”.
“Both Abu Eisa and Madani have not committed any mistake that requires an apology,” Yousef stressed, accusing the authorities of “politicising the issue, and intervening in the work of the judiciary”.

Faroug Abu Eisa, head of the National Consensus Forces (NCF), and Dr Amin Mekki Madani, chairman of the Civil Society Initiative (CSI), will not offer their apologies for signing the Sudan Appeal.

Bakri Yousef, head of the Media Committee of the NCF, a coalition of opposition parties, stressed to Dabanga that the signatories “will never apologise for demanding democracy for Sudan”.

“Both Abu Eisa and Madani have not committed any mistake that requires an apology,” Yousef stressed, accusing the authorities of “politicising the issue, and intervening in the work of the judiciary”.

President Omar Al Bashir last week announced that both detainees will be released if they offer their apologies for what he called violating the Sudanese criminal law.

War criminal

In an interview with the French Le Monde last week, Al Bashir said that he would leave power by 2020, if he would be elected again in the April elections, though on Thursday he stated in a speech in El Gezira state that he will not leave office, until the population of Sudan votes differently.

Al Bashir furthermore said that the Western powers describe him as a dictator and a war criminal, because of his rejection of their intervention in Muslim countries has annoyed them.