This decision has taken place when Khartoum opened up the trial of four demonstrators detained for four months for the death of a police general.
Le Monde with AFP
Sunday, May 29, General Abdel Fattah al-Bourhane raised the state of emergency he had imposed in Sudan during his putsch of October 25, 2021. The same day opened in Khartoum the trial of Four demonstrators, including an icon of protest against the military.
General Bourhane, who had arrested his civilian partners, dismissed the transitional government and imposed the state of emergency during his coup de force, is under the fire of the criticisms of the international community, which is back From civilians to power the sine qua non condition for the resumption of his aid in the country, one of the poorest in the world. It also demands the end of a repression which has already killed a hundred dead in the ranks of pro-democracy demonstrators and hundreds of arrests.
General Bourhane “issued a decree raising the state of emergency throughout the country,” the council he is in a statement. This is a outstretched hand “to create the atmosphere necessary for a fruitful and significant dialogue for stability during the transition period”.
The transition to democracy was launched in 2019 in Sudan, when military and civilians agreed to share the power time to lead the country to its first democratic elections after thirty years of Militaro-Islamist dictatorship of Omar Al -Bachir, deposited by the army under the pressure of the street. It was interrupted by the putsch of General Bourhane, who now pleads for a dialogue with all the political forces, which he already calls to make “concessions”.
The United Nations and the African Union – which has suspended Sudan – also argue for a political dialogue, under penalty of seeing the country sinking definitively “on the economic and security levels”, while already, according to the UN, one Sudanese out of two will suffer from hunger by the end of 2022. Stoped by the October coup, the anti-Putsch demonstrators, them, refuse any dialogue with the military.
“The revolution trial”
Sunday, the trial of four demonstrators detained for four months for the death of a police general opened up in Khartoum. Hundreds of Sudanese brandished their portraits in front of the courtroom, an AFP journalist noted. Mohamed Adam, a young anti-potsch icon, nicknamed “Tupac” by the street, appeared alongside his co-accused, Mohamed al-Fattah, Ahmed al-Nanna and Mossaab al-Cherif. Fist in the air, “V” of victory and broad smile, they praised theirs at their descent from the police van.
The next hearing will take place on June 12, said judge Zouheir Osmane, who asked for legal medicine a report on possible tortures when the four young people had led a hunger strike in March to protest against “Inhuman treatments” and “police violence”. “This trial is not only that of four revolutionaries, it is that of the Revolution,” wrote the People’s Committee of the Rormant district of Bourri, in Khartoum, calling for “not let the counter-revolutionary forces regain control of the state, whatever it costs “.
This trial is emblematic in Sudan, where the police only announced two dead in his ranks, including this police general stabbed to death, according to her, in the chaos of the dispersion, in January, of one of the many anti-potsch events. Several dozen of his relatives were also present in court on Sunday, brandishing banners claiming “revenge”.
On Saturday, two new demonstrators were killed in anti-Putsch protests. The UN emissary in Sudan, Volker Perthes, estimated that it was “time to stop violence and put an end to the state of emergency”. Sunday, shortly before he raised the state of emergency, General Bourhane had received high officers who called him to release the demonstrators arrested under exceptional laws and to make his accreditation in Al- Jazeera Live, according to his office. This Qatari channel, prohibited in January, had been accused by the “non -professional coverage” authorities of demonstrations.