Six released students remain dismissed from Khartoum University

The Sudanese security service has released six detained students of the University of Khartoum. Their families plan to file a petition against the university's dismissal from their studies.

The six had been detained without charges for several weeks against the backdrop of student demonstrations. The administration of Khartoum University announced the release of the students, including four women, on Sunday.

The university released a press statement reporting that the university chancellor met with the six released students on Sunday afternoon. He stressed the university’s seriousness about the enforcement of its administrative regulations.

The students were dismissed from studying after the widespread protests, mainly aimed against a rumoured decision by Khartoum University to sell-off faculty buildings and move its facilities to the suburbs of Soba on the outskirts of Khartoum.

The father of student Mai Adil Karrar told Radio Dabanga that the families of the now released, however, still dismissed, students, will file a petition to the university administration. Lawyer Nabil Adeeb’s office is leading the petition that will advocate for the students' return to their studies.

“The decision to dismiss them by the administration was not according to the university regulations,” Karrar said.

Chancellor Ahmed Mohamed Suleiman issued a decision to indefinitely dismiss the six students from the university and suspend eleven others from studying for two years, in the beginning of May. On 5 May security agents stormed the office of lawyer Nabil Adeeb and detained dozens of students who hired Adeeb to challenge the dismissal.