Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the cities of Khartoum, Wad Madani, Nyala, Dongola, and Atbara yesterday in response to the calls of the resistance committees to demand the overthrow of the coup regime and retribution for the martyrs in new Marches of the Millions.
The defence team of the teenagers accused of killing a police officer in January won a small victory in the trial against the young protesters as an appeal of the Criminal Investigation Prosecution, objecting the defence’s request for an investigation report review and a medical examination of the accused, was rejected.
The health condition of detained activist Seifelislam Essameldin Mohamed has deteriorated to the extent that doctors of the Police Hospital in Khartoum decided to keep him for three days.
Lawyer Rehab El Mubarak, member of the Sudanese Emergency Lawyers, told Radio Dabanga that Mohamed was suffering from abdominal pain and fever when he appeared before the judge on Saturday.
The number of victims of maltreatment and torture by the authorities is rapidly increasing in Sudan, says Sudanese psychiatrist Amal Jabrallah.
On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26, Jabrallah told Radio Dabanga that the increased maltreatment of activists “aims to break them, in order to get confessions”.
Mohamed Adam (17) nicknamed ‘Tubak', and Mohamed El Fateh (18), nicknamed 'El Nana', and Musab El Shareef, who have been detained since January 14 on suspicion of killing a high-ranking police officer, had their trial postponed till June 26, after an appeal on behalf of the detainees was submitted by their lawyers.