Det kan godt være, at Sudans præsident står på det internationale samfunds liste over krigsforbrydere, men på hjemmebane er han indtil videre herre i eget hus og har sat opsætsige demokrati-forkæmpere bag lås og slå – ikke noget arabisk forår her.
KHARTOUM, 15 January 2013 (IRIN): A number of Sudanese opposition party leaders are in custody (tilbageholdt) following the signing of an accord, dubbed the ‘New Dawn Charter’, under which they agreed to overthrow the government of President Omar al-Bashir and institute a federal system of government based on democracy, pluralism and the separation of religion and the state.
The charter, signed in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on 6 January, calls on parties to work together to topple the regime through either “democratic civil peaceful means” or “revolutionary armed struggle”.
Among the signatories are major political opposition parties under the banner of the National Consensus Forces, a coalition of armed opposition groups named the Sudan Revolutionary Front, as well as a number of women’s and youth groups.
Upon their arrival in Khartoum, five politicians and activists – Jamal Idris, head of the Nasserite Unionist Party; Nasserite Unionist Party member and women’s rights activist Intisar Al-agli; and Democratic Unionist Party members Abdulrrahim Abdullah, Muhammed Zain Ala’abdeen and Hisham Almufti – were arrested. The government described them as “traitors” (forrædere).
On 14 January in Khartoum, security officers arrested the chairman of the executive bureau of the opposition National Alliance, Abdul Aziz Khalid, for having signed the New Dawn Charter.
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