Sudan security forces arrest 14 university professors

SANAA, Feb. 13  (YPA) -Sudanese security forces have arrested 14 university professors who had gathered to protest outside the University of Khartoum on Tuesday, as anti-government protests approached the end of their eighth week of actions, eyewitnesses said.

The witnesses added that a group of doctors had gathered outside government hospitals, especially in the capital Khartoum but also in other cities, in protest against the rule of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

Trade unionists, students, opposition activists and others who are frustrated with the economic hardship, have been in almost daily protests since Dec. 19, the longest-running challenge to al-Bashir’s 30-year rule.

Photographs posted on the internet showed people holding banners reading “Freedom, Justice and Peace”, “No to the killing and torturing of protesters”, and other slogans.

For the second month in a row now, Sudan is witnessing massive demonstrations that were initially aimed against the deteriorating living conditions and worsening of the economic crisis, but has evolved into a demand for the overthrow of the regime.

So far, the protests have resulted in scores of deaths and injuries. Sudan is marred by poverty, income inequality, corruption, ethnic conflict and war.

E.M