SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources - Sudan forces arrest 113 and fire tear gas to disperse protests by teachers

7/11/2021: Multiple sources - Sudan forces arrest 113 and fire tear gas to disperse protests by teachers

• ·      Guardian

• ·      Bloomberg, by Mohammed Alamin

• ·      Radio Dabanga

• ·      BBC

• ·      Times, by Jonathan Clayton

• ·      AP, by Fay Abuelgasim and Samy Magdy

At least 113 were arrested when Sudan security forces cracked down on a sit-in at the Education Ministry in Khartoum, in demonstrations against moves to appoint members of ex-dictator Omar al-Bashir’s regime to educational roles,the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) said.

Duriya Mohamed Babiker, a leader of the Khartoum Teachers’ Committee told Radio Dabanga that: “the military forces stormed the ministry’s buildings by force and dealt with the protest with excessive violence and fired tear gas”.

She said that she was among the women detainees who were held in a large cell. The committee posted on its Facebook page that one of the teachers suffered a miscarriage after her arrest.

In the South Darfur capital Nyala, the authorities held two teachers who protested the appointment of Prof Mohamed al-Amin Mustafa as director of the ministry.