Security forces raid Kassala University in eastern Sudan

11/12/2014 14:40

A number of students sustained injuries in an attack by security forces on the campus of Kassala University on Wednesday. “Security forces in five vehicles raided the campus at 4 pm on Wednesday, where student activists were campaigning for the Students’ Unit elections,” student Hamror Hussein reported to Radio Dabanga. “They beat us with batons. A large number of students were injured. Ahmed Yagoub Ahmed and Ibrahim Musa Abdallah, students of the Faculty of Education, Ahmed Omer and Abdelrahman Omar Abakar, of the Faculty of Economics, and Mohamed Abakar, studying accountancy, were seriously wounded.” File photo: Students of the University of Khartoum after being molested by security forces, May 2014 (Radio Dabanga correspondent)

A number of students sustained injuries in an attack by security forces on the campus of Kassala University on Wednesday.

“Security forces in five vehicles raided the campus at 4 pm on Wednesday, where student activists were campaigning for the Students’ Unit elections,” student Hamror Hussein reported to Radio Dabanga.

“They beat us with batons. A large number of students were injured. Ahmed Yagoub Ahmed and Ibrahim Musa Abdallah, students of the Faculty of Education, Ahmed Omer and Abdelrahman Omar Abakar, of the Faculty of Economics, and Mohamed Abakar, studying accountancy, were seriously wounded.”

File photo: Students of the University of Khartoum after being molested by security forces, May 2014 (Radio Dabanga correspondent)