20.12.2021( Khartoum) The Central Sudan Doctors Union wrote on its Facebook page that one person was killed Sunday , in East Nile(Bahri) Hospital.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched to the presidential palace in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Sunday in protest at the Oct. 25 military coup, drawing volleys of tear gas and stun grenades from security forces.
Medics said scores of people were injured.
Some protesters managed to reach the gates of the palace and the protest’s organizers called on more to join a planned sit-in there after sundown, but live video footage showed those who remained being tear gassed heavily.
The outpouring of protest, the ninth major demonstration since the coup and one of the largest, marked the 2018 burning of a ruling party building which touched off a popular uprising that led to the overthrow of long-ruling Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Protests against the coup have continued even after the reinstatement of the prime minister last month, with demonstrators demanding no more military involvement at all in government in a transition towards free elections.
Demonstrators marched down a main road leading to the palace, chanting “the people are stronger and retreat is impossible”, with some darting into side streets to dodge volleys of tear gas.
Medics affiliated with the protest movement accused security forces in a statement of using live bullets and heavy tear gas to disperse the sit-in, assaulting protesters and stealing their personal property. They also accused them of encircling hospitals and firing tear gas at the entrances.
There was no immediate statement from police.
Images shared on social media showed protests taking place in several other cities including Port Sudan, El-Deain, Madani Nyala and Kassala.