Protests against coup in Sudan: list of detainees continues to grow
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A barricade in Khartoum, Sudan, this Sunday, November 7, 2021. AP - Marwan Ali
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In Sudan, nearly two weeks after the coup led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, civil society organizations called this Sunday, November 7 for two new days of civil disobedience and a general strike.
The putschist generals are consolidating their base on power, whereas so far all internal and international mediations have failed.
Sunday morning, November 7, dozens of teachers who were organizing a peaceful march in front of the Ministry of Education were violently dispersed.
More than 80 of them were arrested according to a committee of teachers, as were several activists from resistance committees across the capital.
Rights violations difficult to document.
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With our correspondent in Khartoum,
Eliott Brachet
Dozens of teachers demonstrating in front of the Sudanese education ministry were violently dispersed
this Sunday morning in Khartoum
. According to the teachers' union, 87 teachers were arrested and a teacher had her leg broken in the dispersion. Several activists from resistance committees were also arrested. In total, the police and intelligence services have taken at least 119 people, according to a lawyer.
In the capital, the neighborhoods of Umbada, Burri or Shajara were particularly targeted by the police. Witnesses say that after being dispersed with tear gas, they were chased in the alleys and had to come under live fire. They mention the presence of unmarked pick-ups, loaded with men dressed in civilian clothes, who were unleashed on citizens, reminiscent of the old regime.
RFI followed this Sunday two activists who try, anonymously or at least in secret, to document these violations of human rights (listen to the audio).
“
The military shows no sign of goodwill,”
Yehya said.
They make us believe that they are negotiating, but they are buying time.
They tell
diplomats that
they are going to make an effort.
But in reality, they are arresting people, replacing them with those close to power.
They muzzle us by cutting off internet connections and the media.
"
These are the same practices as under Omar al-Bashir
In the rest of the country, in Atbara in the north, or in Nyala in Darfur, as well as in Port-Sudan, hundreds of people also took to the streets on Sunday. But the military authorities everywhere are strengthening their grip on power and making arrests that are decidedly difficult to document, since the Internet is still cut two weeks after the coup. The arrests recorded in Khartoum represent only a small part of what is happening elsewhere.
"
This coup d'etat had to happen
", estimates Doha, for her part a lawyer and who tries, with Yehya, to document the situation.
“
It was clear that the military was not going to hand power back to civilians as planned,
” she adds.
The same thing has happened since our independence: there have been fifteen coups d'état.
Me, I am 27 years old and I have already known two coups d'etat.
"
We have to fight, we have to talk, we have to resist
For the time being,
the putschist generals are
consolidating their base on power.
Since October 25 and the arrest of most of
Sudan's
civilian leaders
, the list of detainees has continued to grow: politicians, members of famous resistance committees, activists active on social networks, young people arrested on barricades , or even senior officials.
All were arrested without an arrest warrant.
So far, all internal and international mediations have failed.
► Also listen: In Sudan, a revolution for nothing?
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Abdel Fattah al-Burhan