Protestors beaten, assaulted in Sudan

Badreldin El Haj, who was detained on Friday at a demonstration in El Jareif East in Khartoum says that he and 14 others were beaten with sticks, kicked, bunched and slapped by members of the security forces. El Haj and other El Jareif East residents staged a protest against the government selling their lands, and changing the name of the area into El Manshiya East. He told Radio Dabanga that the protesters suffered varying injuries to the head, eyes, ribs, and chest. He also said that the police refused to give them Form 8 for medical treatment. He explained that the government confiscated and sold their land to oil, telecommunication, electricity companies, and a Saudi investor named Saleh Kamel, and refused to compensate them. El Haj added that they will continue to demonstrate until they are compensated, noting that they will go out in a mass demonstration on Friday. He appealing via Radio Dabanga to all citizens of El Jareif East to join what he called the “uprising”. File photo (Radio Dabanga) Related: Protests flare in Sudan, citizens arrested (21 April 2104)