Sudanese authorities have detained another member of the suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) as the coup authorities continue their crackdown on political opponents.
On Tuesday, relatives of 17 detained members of the disbanded Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) , organised a protest sit-in in front of the Public Prosecution in Khartoum to demand their immediate release.
Joint security forces arrested Muhammad El Faki, a former member of Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, and the alternate head of the now suspended Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) , as well as Maj Maash Awad Karendis, another member of the ERC, on Sunday evening in Khartoum.
The recent pattern of arrests and detentions of civil society activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers occurring throughout Sudan these last weeks, is “wholly inconsistent with the [Sudan junta’s] stated commitment to participate constructively in a facilitated process to resolve Sudan’s political crisis to return to a democratic transition”.
Authorities detained three members of Sudan’s Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC), following a breach of trust reported against them by the Ministry of Finance. The ERC leader, Wajdi Saleh, an outspoken voice and supporter of the dismantlement of the ousted Al Bashir regime, was detained alongside former Minister of Cabinet Affairs, Khaled Omar Yousef. Also, among the detained was the Secretary General of the ERC, Tayeb Othman Yousef.