SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudanese Professionals Association demand the dissolution of the Rapid Support Forces

5/1/2021: Multiple sources – Sudanese Professionals Association demand the dissolution of the Rapid Support Forces

• Radio Dabanga

• Sudan Tribune

 The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) called for the Rapid Support Forces to be disbanded and integrated into the national army, as part of campaign entitled ‘Know Your Right’, which protests against the RSF’s violence towards “ordinary citizens,” following the killing of activist Bahaeldin Nouri.

 In a memorandum submitted to Justice Minister Nasreldin Abdelbari and Attorney General Tajelsir al-Hibr, the SPA demanded urgent steps “to criminalise the abduction and detention of citizens by the RSF”, and “to clearly restrict the right to arrest people to the police.”

 The SPA also urges Sudanese authorities to form a committee to “review all detention centres of the RSF and other forces, transfer the detainees who have been charged to police stations,” and for the closure of all “illegal detention centres” and “ghost houses of the security apparatus”.

The attorney general was requested to form “a permanent commission to investigate allegations of RSF violations”.