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The defence team of lawyer Wajdi Saleh, leading member of the Socialist Arabic Ba’ath Party Sudan and former head of the now dissolved Empowerment Removal Committee, announced on Tuesday that he would be released on bail, before he was detained again due to another complaint.
The family of activist and outspoken opponent to the ousted Al Bashir regime, Wajdi Saleh, stated that the prosecution’s handling of his court case is a farce, and simply a means of “political targeting”.
The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) has announced it is joining the defence committee for Wajdi Saleh. Saleh is the former head of the now-dissolved Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC), a leading member of the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC), and the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party.
Activist and outspoken opponent to the ousted Al Bashir regime, Wajdi Saleh, handed himself over to authorities in Khartoum yesterday, following orders from Sudan’s Public Prosecution Office. The former head of the now-dissolved Empowerment Removal Committee (ERC) and leading member of the Forces for Freedom and Change-Central Council (FFC-CC) and the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, explained that his being public announcement as a fugitive, was “a clear attempt of character assassination”.