SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan rebel chief Arman, in Juba, says deported by Khartoum

10/6/19: Multiple sources – Sudan rebel chief Arman, in Juba, says deported by Khartoum

• AFP

• Reuters, by Khalid Abdelaziz

 Sudanese rebel chief Yassir Arman he was deported from Khartoum to South Sudan with two comrades, hours after authorities claimed to have released the three men from detention.

 Arman, deputy chief of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), tweeted that that he had been "deported against my will by a military helicopter from Khartoum to Juba.”

 "I was not aware of where they were taking me. I asked them many times," he added, alleging that he, and his “comrades” Ismail Khamis Jalab and Mubarak Ardol had been tied up for their flight.

 The previously exiled Arman returned to Khartoum in late May to take part in talks with a military council. His SPLM-North is the political wing of a rebel movement that has fought against Sudanese security forces in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states for much of the last decade.