The Sudanese Professionals Association demanded an investigation into what it said were violations committed by the police and security services against peaceful demonstrations yesterday, Wednesday, while the Public Prosecution announced that it had arrested dozens of whom it described as insubordinate.

The assembly added - in a press statement - that the security services used rubber bullets, tear gas, and pursued and arbitrarily arrested the demonstrators.

The Association of Professionals considered what happened a clear violation of the rights of expression, demonstration and peaceful assembly guaranteed by the constitutional document.

Yesterday, the Sudanese police dispersed - with tear gas - a demonstration that was heading to the presidential palace in the capital, Khartoum, and another that came out in the city of Omdurman;

To demand the overthrow of the transitional government and to correct the course of the revolution, it also arrested a journalist working for the Al-Jazeera network during his work, before releasing him at a later time.

The Sudanese security authorities arrested Al Jazeera journalist Ali Abu Shalleh while covering the Khartoum demonstrations.

The demonstrators raised slogans calling for the overthrow of the government, correcting the course and achieving the demands of the revolution. The participants in the demonstration chanted slogans confirming the peacefulness of their movement and denouncing the government's policies, demanding justice and retribution for the victims of the demonstrations.

Khartoum demonstrations

Al-Jazeera correspondent Al-Taher Al-Mardi said that the streets of Khartoum and the city of Omdurman are still witnessing hit-and-run operations between the demonstrators and the security forces that are trying to disperse them.

The reporter explained that the Sudanese police dispersed a demonstration in Khartoum in the context of calls from the opposition forces to organize demonstrations to overthrow the government of Abdullah Hamdok;

In protest against the deteriorating economic and living conditions, on the second anniversary of what is known as the "leadership massacre" in which more than 100 demonstrators were killed during the dispersal of a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the General Command of the Armed Forces.

The reporter added that the police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators near the railway station in central Khartoum, who were on their way to the presidential palace to join demonstrations calling for the overthrow of the government, in response to calls from the opposition forces, which also demand pressure on the government to implement the goals of the revolution and correct its course.

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Al-Jazeera correspondent explained that the demonstrations in Khartoum reached the Republican Palace Street, meters away from the presidential palace, which is heavily surrounded by police forces.

He said that the demonstrations carried various slogans, including the overthrow of the current government and the formation of a new government, and pressure on the government to change its policies to face high prices, ensure the independence of the judiciary, and build balanced external relations.

He added that the protesters also raised slogans calling for the trial of the symbols of the former regime, and the detection of the killers of the demonstrators, noting that the security forces deployed heavily and partially closed the roads leading to the General Command of the Sudanese army.

Retribution for the victims of the demonstrations

A demonstration also took place in the city center of Omdurman;

To demand the overthrow of the government, a correction of the course, and the fulfillment of the demands of the revolution. For its part, the police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.

The demonstrators - who headed towards the parliament building - raised slogans calling for justice and retribution for the victims of the demonstrations, and the participants also expressed their regret for what they considered selling the blood of the revolution's martyrs and the loss of its demands.

Protests were organized in and outside Khartoum on the anniversary of the demonstrations of June 30, 2019, as well as the day that coincides with the anniversary of the military coup in Sudan in 1989 led by the ousted President Omar al-Bashir.