Regime Forces in Sudan Assault CNN Reporter

SANAA, Jan. 1 (YPA) – Sudan’s security forces assaulted correspondent of CNN’s American network in Sudan while she was covering the mass protests that demand President Omar al-Bashir to step down, under the slogan “December 31 March” in the capital Khartoum, the correspondent, Yusra El-Baqir said.

Sudanese security forces beat her and ripped my clothes while she was covering the demonstrations, near the square of the city’s al-Qanat in Khartoum, El-Baqir said in a thread of tweets on Tuesday.

They nearly broke the glass before I finally opened the door. This was moments after I saw a civilian on the street get manhandled for using his phone. Heavy force is being used INDESCRIMINATELY towards anyone filming or seen as an observer. They don't want the world watching.

— Yousra Elbagir (@YousraElbagir) December 31, 2018

She explained that while she was secretly filming the security trucks, a group of forces attacked her and started beating on the car, and screaming “give us cameras,

” After I opened the door of the car, one of them grabbed my shirt an screamed to hand over my phone, ” she added.

She posted a photograph of her torn shirt aftermath of assaulting of the Sudanese police officers.

E.M