Sudan: Six injured, nine detained in El Hamadab protest

The number of people, who were wounded in the demonstration in El Hamadab neighbourhood, Khartoum, on Tuesday, has risen to six.

“Six people were wounded, and nine others were detained during the demonstration of yesterday morning in response to the death of Samia Mohamed Bushra,” a resident from El Hamadab in southern Khartoum’s El Shajara district told Dabanga.  

The people took to the streets when Bushra died of her wounds sustained in a demonstration at the end of January. She was taken to the hospital in a coma, after she was beaten on the head by security officers.

“The people who were injured yesterday, are secondary school student Asar Abdelalem, university student Ghada Mohamed Siddig, Rashad Abdin, Hajer Habiballah Dafallah, Abu Ebeida Haidar, and his wife Israa Hamza,” the source reported.

He furthermore said that security and police forces are stationed in the neighbourhood, “to suppress any future demonstration”.

Since the middle of last year, residents of El Hamadab have been regularly protesting against the sale of plots by the Khartoum authorities, with the aim to establish a commercial housing scheme.

The Democratic Unionist Party, allied with the government, and the opposition Sudanese Congress Party have both called on the authorities to bring the forces responsible for the death of Bushra to justice.