SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s Attorney General recommends new culture for security forces

6/3/2020: Sudan Tribune - Sudan’s Attorney General recommends new culture for security forces

 Sudan’s Attoney General, Taj Elsir Alhibr, has called for Sudanese security forces to adopt a “new culture” to prevent the “brutal” crackdown against peaceful protesters.

 Alhibr chairs a committee investigating the crackdown in February on demonstrations against the dismissal of pro-democracy military officers.

 The final recommendations of his report call for the police to depart from the conventional methods of dealing with peaceful demonstrations under al-Bashir’s regime, adding that peaceful demonstrations “are now a legitimate right.”

 Alhbir also said: “we expect this report to be meticulously studied by all relevant authorities, to clearly confirm the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, and to enforce these recommendations so that what happened will not occur again.”