Sudan’s pro-democracy movement has called for
The call to action comes as several opposition leaders were arrested by security forces, a day after the Prime Minister of neighboring Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, held talks with Sudan’s military rulers and opposition leaders in a bid to revive negotiations.
Security forces conducted an overnight raid on a residence Saturday and arrested Ismail Jalab and Mubarak al-Ardul, who are respectively Secretary-General and spokesperson of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM/N).
SPLM/N, which Bashir banned as a political party in 2011, said in a statement that the men were taken to an undisclosed location.
In a separate raid, security forces arrested Mohammad Esmat, a member of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces (DFCF), according to the Sudanese Congress Party in a Facebook statement.
The UK Ambassador to Sudan, Irfan Siddiq, called for the Transitional Military Council (TMC) to release „opposition leaders immediately,“ in a Saturday twitter post.
He also specified that two of the detained, SPLM/N’s al-Ardul and Jalab, were arrested just a day after meeting with his deputy.
