SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s draft security bill faces criticism from different sides

25/4/2021: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s draft security bill faces criticism from different sides

Sudan Tribune report that several political forces rejected the draft Internal Security Agency bill that provides a new security apparatus powers of arrest for 48 hours without a court order or warrant from the Public Prosecution office.

Yasir Arman, the deputy head of Malik Agar’s faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, said the bill was “as if Omar al-Bashir wrote it from his prison,” referring the former regimes suppression of opposition groups.  Arman added that the law should be passed by the Transitional Legislative Council.

The Democratic Unionist Alliance criticised the Ministry of Justice for failing to consult political groups, as well as the broad immunities, special courts, and the power given to the new security apparatus to withdraw cases from regular courts.

The Sudanese Communist Party said the law is "a new episode of the conspiracy against the forces of the revolution, aiming to circumvent its objectives."