Sudan: the first evening demonstration against the Bashir regime despite the security grip

Sudanese police on Tuesday fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the southern suburb of Kalakala, the first evening demonstration since the protests broke out weeks ago.

Anatolia quoted eyewitnesses as saying that hundreds of protesters had gathered despite heavy security in the area.

They said the police confronted them with tear gas as they reached the main street in the middle of the Al-Kalakala suburb, without talking about casualties.

"Al-Kalakla is now on the street shouting for freedom, peace, justice and overthrowing the regime," the Sudanese Professionals' Union (independent) said in its official pages on social networking sites.

Protests were renewed Sunday in seven Sudanese cities, including a maritime city in the capital, Khartoum, demanding the overthrow of the regime, which resulted in 11 injuries, including one shot, according to the Central Sudan Committee of Doctors (independent).

Opposition parties and a gathering of Sudanese professionals announced Friday the launch of the week of "urban, village and neighborhood uprising" across the country to demonstrate and protest until the overthrow of the regime.

The Union of Sudanese Professionals, which leads the protest demonstrations, urged their semi-daily demonstrations to continue this week and called for a "week of uprising."

The bloody demonstrations have rocked Sudan since December 19 when angry people gathered in countries and villages against the government's decision to triple the price of bread.

The Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said that his government will not change neither the demonstration nor those who come from abroad, but through the elections, stressing in a public meeting in the state of South Darfur recently that his government recognized the existence of economic crisis, and is continuing to resolve.

"Yes, there is a known economic problem and we are working to solve it, but the solution is not destruction, sabotage and burning," Bashir said.

The Sudanese prosecutor's office reported two days ago the death toll of 24 demonstrators and the injury of 131 people since the start of the protests, but Human Rights Watch talked about forty people dead.