KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thousands of Sudanese protested in the capital Khartoum and other cities on Thursday to demand the appointment of a chief justice and attorney general, at the invitation of the forces of freedom and change as part of an escalating agenda titled "Achieving the Revolution's Goals."
The protesters went to the presidential palace in Khartoum to deliver a note bearing their demands, but police forces detained them 100 meters from the southern gate of the palace, according to Anatolia.
"The people want a new president of the judiciary, the people want to punish the martyrs, our right is complete and all the more beautiful," chanted slogans, demanding justice for those killed during protests against the ousted regime of President Omar al-Bashir.
"Any delay in the matter of the Chief Justice and the Attorney General is an abortion of the revolution and justice," the Democratic Lawyers' Association, a party to the protest movement, said in a statement.
Similar rallies took place in Port Sudan on the Red Sea, Kassala in the east of the country and a civilian in central Sudan.In Senja, Sennar state, officials of the demonstration handed over the presidency of the state judiciary, a memorandum demanding the speedy appointment of the head of the judiciary.
The constitutional document allows the Sovereign Council to appoint the Chief Justice and the Attorney General, although the matrix of the document specifies that the Chief Justice should be appointed by the Supreme Judicial Council (not yet formed) and the Attorney General from the Supreme Prosecution Council (not yet formed).
The move comes days after the announcement of the formation of the first government in the country after the removal of Bashir, in the framework of an agreement between the forces of change and the army provides for a transition period lasting 39 months, and ends with elections.