Sudan’s authorities retract execution of prison sentence, flogging 9 female protesters

SANAA, March 10 (YPA) – Sudanese authorities have retreated from carrying out a prison sentence and flogging against Sudanese female activists for their participation in demonstrations calling for the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, according to human rights activists.

The so-called “Democratic Alliance of Lawyers” issued a statement apologizing to the publication of a “flogging sentence for nine protesters.”

The statement asserted that verdicts were not executed, as “the flogging sentence was reversed until the appeal is issued.”

The Coalition stated that the execution of the verdict had been undone “under pressure and interception of existing and rebellious lawyers.”

Earlier, the coalition of Sudanese professionals “The main organizer of popular protests in the country” said that more than 800 people were tried by the emergency courts.

It denounced what it described as “trespassing and defilement of Sudanese homes in light of the erroneous implementation of the emergency law.”

President al-Bashir announced Friday his intention to release all the detainees held during the wave of protests in the country on the occasion of International Women’s Day.

In a speech to a crowd of civil administrations and political, youth and student leaders in eastern Sudan, al-Bashir said he had ordered the Director of Security and intelligence service, Lieutenant General Salah Abdallah “Gosh”, to do so.

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