Darfur Students’ Association denounces persecution of Darfuris in Khartoum
Three students and a lawyer from Darfur were arrested by the security services in Khartoum on Tuesday night. The Darfur Students’ Association organised a press conference in Omdurman on Wednesday. A statement released by the Darfur Students’ Association said that the “Khartoum regime and its security forces have stepped up the persecution of members of the Association”, and condemned the arrest of a Darfuri lawyer known by the name of El Sadig and three Darfuri students, Ibrahim Saleh, Ali Ahmed Ali, and El Radi Ali Ibrahim. “The Khartoum regime wants to hinder and halt the Association’s search for the identity of the killers of Ali Abakar Musa, the student of the University of Khartoum who was shot dead during a demonstration on 11 March. It does not want the Darfur students to discuss what is currently happening in Darfur, and talk about the murders, rapes, the widespread looting, and the massive displacements.” The Darfur Students’ Association stressed in the statement that “the Association and its student members will never give up, despite the intimidation, arrests, and murders”. Press conference The Association held a press conference at the premises of the National Umma Party in Omdurman on Wednesday. During the meeting, attended by a large audience, the latest developments in Darfur were discussed, “the armed conflicts, the tribal clashes, the assaults, killing and looting, the Darfuri people have to endure since a long time”, as well as “the persecutions and arrests of Darfuri students, the brutal forcing out of female students of dormitories, and the shooting on peacefully demonstrating students”. Representatives from the Darfur Bar Association, the Manaseer Youth and Students Organisation, and the Nuba Mountains Association spoke during the press conference. File photo: Students demonstrating in Khartoum, September 2013 Related:Guards storm Khartoum dormitory, force students out (14 March 2014) One dies as troops fire on Darfuri students in Khartoum (11 March 2014)
Three students and a lawyer from Darfur were arrested by the security services in Khartoum on Tuesday night. The Darfur Students’ Association organised a press conference in Omdurman on Wednesday.
A statement released by the Darfur Students’ Association said that the “Khartoum regime and its security forces have stepped up the persecution of members of the Association”, and condemned the arrest of a Darfuri lawyer known by the name of El Sadig and three Darfuri students, Ibrahim Saleh, Ali Ahmed Ali, and El Radi Ali Ibrahim.
“The Khartoum regime wants to hinder and halt the Association’s search for the identity of the killers of Ali Abakar Musa, the student of the University of Khartoum who was shot dead during a demonstration on 11 March. It does not want the Darfur students to discuss what is currently happening in Darfur, and talk about the murders, rapes, the widespread looting, and the massive displacements.”
The Darfur Students’ Association stressed in the statement that “the Association and its student members will never give up, despite the intimidation, arrests, and murders”.
Press conference
The Association held a press conference at the premises of the National Umma Party in Omdurman on Wednesday. During the meeting, attended by a large audience, the latest developments in Darfur were discussed, “the armed conflicts, the tribal clashes, the assaults, killing and looting, the Darfuri people have to endure since a long time”, as well as “the persecutions and arrests of Darfuri students, the brutal forcing out of female students of dormitories, and the shooting on peacefully demonstrating students”.
Representatives from the Darfur Bar Association, the Manaseer Youth and Students Organisation, and the Nuba Mountains Association spoke during the press conference.
File photo: Students demonstrating in Khartoum, September 2013
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