New student protest in #Sudan

Message received today:

Student demos have started in the capital. Sketchy news are reaching us of fierse fighting between young people and roit police in five poits around the Capital.Already in Madani,Alkamleen,Portsudanand Neila,people took to the streets Yesterday and today. More news to follow.

Journalists arrested in #Sudan crackdown

Message this morning:

On Tuesday the 1st of February, the security forces did not allow the distribution of Almidan. On Wednesday 2nd of Feb. the security forces detained the following joualists and workers of Almidan:

Kamal Karar,editor

Mohaned Al Didieri,Samir Salah Al dien,Mohamed Rahama,Ibrahim Mirgani, Khalid Tawfig,Mawiaa Abu Hashim,.Those colleagues were detained late last night, and are still held in different police locations in Khartoum.

The following members and collaboraters of the editorial board were briefly detained and are requested to report to police station at Khartoum South. They are:Miss Shadia Abd Almoniem,Miss Fatima Albashir and Miss Fathia Ibrahim.

Please, raise your voice demand immediate release of all political detainees and respect to all basic human rights including the right to organise ,assembly and expression.

Update Sudan - resistance to reassume Feb 3

Comrades,
Scrimmages between police and demonstrators continued till late at night, especially around the faculty of medicine, University of Khartoum main building and Al Ahlia University in Omdurman.The students and young people movement have recorded their first martyr Mohamed Abd Alrahman ,student at Al Ahlia Unversity.Plans for further mass actions are on the agenda of the political forces. The National Consensus Forum, grouping around 23 political parties and organizations, is still in session.As it is well known the Sudanese Communist Party have already raised the issue of toppling the regime through all legal means including civil uprising and political disobedience.Since last August its branches are working to mobilize the masses in the different sections of the population.[...]

Some of the detainees were released in the early hours of the morning today.However, two persons have completely disappeared at the hands of the security forces.Dr,Husam Malik who seized by the security forces while distributing an appeal in support of the youth demos, and pharmasyst Luis Awail who intervined to treat some of the wounded.All attempts to trace their whereabouts have failed. Their relatives and colleague are quite warried about their destiny.Such incidents in the past usually result in victims being exposed to torture.
Three of the youth organisations have issued joint statement, expressing their satisfaction with the response their call for action have received.The movement youth for change, the neighbourhood resistance, and Griefna, called for mass demostrations to resume on Thursday 3rd of Feb.

Update Sudan

an e-mail arrived from our friend in Khartoum not long ago

Comrades,
The streets of Khartoum are rather empty for the first working day of the week.Roit police, security cars, and police vans are moving all over the place, in an attempt as a show of force.The demos of today have achieved its target.It is time regroup, study the experience and chart a new the coming step.coming days are important.
Foreign journalist were forbidden from taking photoes or interviewing politicians.Some have lost their camers conficated by police.Over thirtydetainees including female students were transfered to the headquarters of the security in Khartoum North.Some were beaten on the way to prison.

Un llamado desde Jartum

Ese correo nos llegó hoy 30 de enero(traducido del ingles por este blog),

Compañeros
Mantengan su apoyo y solidaridad, nuestra juventud esta llevando la lucha. Hasta ahora podamos decir que las manifestaciones estan lentamente llegando a diferentes partes de la ciudad. En las tres municipios que conforman Jartum, donde todo empezo, ahora mientras que escribimos hay una batalla intensiva en marcha entre policia antimontines y manifestantes alrededor de la Facultad de Medicina. Lo mismo pasa cerca de la Universidad de Jartum. Ya hay manifestaciones cerca de Banet, Universidad Al Ahlia y Universidad de Omdurman. En Jartum Norte manifestaciones justamente ha empezado cerca del centro comercial principal.

La policía de paisano detienen a activistas en las calles. Aparte de las fuerzas de seguridad regulares, el régimen está usando su propia milicia. Hay cinco organizaciones de jóvenes detrás de las manifestaciones de hoy, estos son la Esperanza y Cambio, Resistencia en el Barrio, Juventud por el Cambio, Grifna, y Cambio Primero. Se componen de fuerzas de izquierda radical y democrática y forman parte del movimiento democrático de masas y toman llaman a otros sectores de la población a unirse a las protestas.

De acuerdo a la información que tenemos más de 70 jóvenes fueron detenidos. Más que un centenar de hombres y mujeres jóvenes fueron lesionados, algunos muy en serio. Hay tres casos que se dice que estan en condiciones peligrosas. Dado que las fuerzas de seguridad están asediando los hospitales, los jóvenes heridos prefieren tratarse a sí mismos o buscar atención privada. Médicos comunistas y democraticos están tratando personas heridas en clincas improvisadas.

Las fuerzas de seguridad utilizan la fuerza brutal desnuda para dispersar manifestaciones pacíficas.

Compañeros: Levanta tu voz, este día, los jóvenes busca su apoyo. Esto es el comienzo.