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26.11.2021 (Khartoum) On Friday, the Sudanese Congress Party announced that political detainees in the country had been embarked on an open hunger strike, protesting against their continued detention since October 25th and depriving them of their most basic legal rights.
The party said, in a statement, “the political detainees held in the cells of the security apparatus near the Shendi station in the capital, Khartoum, began an open hunger strike starting today, Friday,” without referring to their numbers. Among the detainees on hunger strike are the Minister of Cabinet Affairs in the dissolved government, Khaled Omar Youssef, the Political Secretary of the Sudanese Congress Party, Sharif Muhammad Othman, and the leader of the Federal Gathering, Jaafar Hassan, according to the party’s statement. The authorities had released five political figures, including former Trade Minister Madani Abbas Madani and well-known activist Muhammad Naji al-Asam, Madani told Reuters on Friday. Last Monday, it also released four other prominent political figures, including Omar Al-Digair, leader of the Sudanese Congress Party, and Yasser Arman, Deputy Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, who was an advisor to Hamdok.