SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Guardian - Protests in Sudan after alleged gang-rape of young woman by security forces
The Guardian report that protests took place across in Sudan following the alleged gang-rape of an 18-year-old by up to nine uniformed men belonging to the security forces who were involved in dispersing the regular protests held across Sudan following the 25 October 2021 military coup.
Sulaima Ishaq, the head of the violence against women unit at Sudan’s social development ministry, said that security forces are “increasingly using this tactic – [sexual assault] - to decrease people’s movements on the streets. That is a well-known oppressive policy in our country … it is not the first time that they have been doing this and it will not be the last time.”
Ishaq added “We have a history of using women’s bodies, whether it is in Darfur or at the dispersal of the sit-in in 2019 or at the protests. The security apparatus use rape as part of their work”.