Sudanese authorities release (4) members of the main opposition Popular Congress Party

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Islamist Hassan Al-Turabi
Islamist Hassan Al-Turabi
SudaneseOnline: سودانيزاونلاين



Khartoum-Sudanese authorities released on Thursday (4) members of Sudan’s main opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP), headed by the Islamist Hassan Al-Turabi, under a presidential amnesty after more than eight years in prison.
PCP’s Secretary of the political affairs, Kamal Omer, said that the four political detainees have been freed today after spending (103) months in prison, pointed out that they had been sentenced to 15 years in prison over a “coup” plot.
On April 1, Sudan’s President, Omar Al-Bashir, announced that all political prisoners would taste freedom as the government seeks a broad political dialogue including with those who are armed.
Seven other political inmates last week became the first to be released under Al-Bashir’s April 1 amnesty. Most were opposition members held since early this year for their connection with a conference in Kampala, Uganda, which led to a charter for toppling Bashir’s 23-year government.
Sudan’s political forces members of the National Consensus Forces (NCF), some civil society groups representing women and youth signed the "New Dawn Charter" with the rebel group’s member of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF).
The Charter recognizes the non-violent action and armed struggle as two means to topple the regime; nonetheless the SRF groups reiterate their support to the peaceful mass action and called their supporters to participate in the peaceful protests against the regime.