Sudanese government releases opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi
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KHARTOUM) — Security services released today Hassan Al-Turabi,
prominent leader of the opposition Popular Congress Party three months
after his arrest without charges.
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Hassan al-Turabi is welcomed by supporters in his home in Khartoum, on
July 1, 2010 (Reuters)
Turabi was jailed on 18 January after statements warning that Sudan
would witness protests similar to what occurred in Tunisia. But media
close to the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) reported that
prisoners captured from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)
in West Darfur admitted their links and receiving support from
Turabi’s party .
Following his release, the prominent Islamist figure said he had never
been interrogated or charged during his stay in prison ""No one told
me why they arrested me and no one told me why I was released," Turabi
said in his house on Monday evening.
Turabi called on the Sudanese people to start their revolution against
the regime saying "the revolution is bound to come". He stressed it
would be worse than its predecessors of October 1964 and April 1985
before to add that the Sudan is currently in a "very dangerous"
situation.
Sudanese youth staged small protest in February and March but they
failed to mobilize the street. Recently the supporters of the rebel
Sudan Liberation Movement also demonstrated in different Sudanese
states in the north, east and Darfur.
Commenting on the readiness of the Sudanese street to uprise against
the NCP government, Turabi said none was able to predict the Egyptian
revolution. "If I had been asked I would say Egypt would be the last
country where a revolutionary change could occur," he said.
Turabi said his detention for more than three months proves that the
NCP government does breach the laws it voted.
In accordance with the national security law, the security services
can arrest people without charges during 45 day. By the end of this
period the detainee should be tried or released.
Since the power struggle between two factions within the Sudanese
Islamists in 1999 and his removal from the parliament, Turabi is
regularly arrested over accusations of plotting to overthrow the
regime.
(ST)
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