Sudan’s Kassala demonstrators in prison
About 38 people who attended the demonstration in El Hafa’ir, 30 km west of Kassala town, on Sunday were sentenced to prison for three months and a fine. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, Mahmoud Musalem El Rashidi, a member of the Kassala state secretariat, said that the demonstrators had to pay a fine of SDG 3,000 ($524). On Sunday, angry citizens had blocked the Khartoum-Kassala-Port Sudan road with burning tires, protesting against the high prices of basic commodities, and the authorities’ refusal to issue trade permits.The authorities also arrested a number of people from the Rashaida tribe, because they had filed a complaint about their suffering and the deteriorating services. Kassala has mobilised a large force of security and police elements in Abu Talha, at the entrance of Kassala, to check buses on their way to Khartoum File photo: Kassala center. Related:Two die after Port Sudan flogging, police contain riots in Kassala (4 August 2014) Growing discontent in Port Sudan: activist interrogated (26 May 2014)
About 38 people who attended the demonstration in El Hafa’ir, 30 km west of Kassala town, on Sunday were sentenced to prison for three months and a fine.
Speaking to Radio Dabanga, Mahmoud Musalem El Rashidi, a member of the Kassala state secretariat, said that the demonstrators had to pay a fine of SDG 3,000 ($524). On Sunday, angry citizens had blocked the Khartoum-Kassala-Port Sudan road with burning tires, protesting against the high prices of basic commodities, and the authorities’ refusal to issue trade permits.
The authorities also arrested a number of people from the Rashaida tribe, because they had filed a complaint about their suffering and the deteriorating services.
Kassala has mobilised a large force of security and police elements in Abu Talha, at the entrance of Kassala, to check buses on their way to Khartoum
File photo: Kassala center.
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Two die after Port Sudan flogging, police contain riots in Kassala (4 August 2014)
Growing discontent in Port Sudan: activist interrogated (26 May 2014)
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