Sudan’s opposition party expects release of its detainees on Saturday
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May 2, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Two Sudanese oppositionists detained since
last year are expected to be released on Saturday, their party has
said.
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FILE PHOTO - Sudan’s Islamist opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi
(left) - (Sudan Tribune)
The Popular Congress Party (PCP) said on Wednesday that its assistant
secretary-general, Ibrahim Al-Sanousi, and secretary of industry, Ali
Shamar, have completed the four-month legal period of preventive
detention under the law governing the National Intelligence and
Security Service (NISS).
According to a press release by the PCP’s secretary of justice and
human rights, Hassan Abd-allah Al-Hussein, the two men have spent a
period of four months and 15 days in NISS custody and should therefore
be released on Saturday.
The pair was detained at Khartoum airport in December last year
following their return from a trip to neighboring South Sudan and
Uganda.
The NISS director-general, Mohammed Atta, later said that Al-Sanousi
was caught in the possession of documents written by the PCP’s leader,
Hassan Al-Turabi, on a planned military coup.
The PCP denied the allegations and later released a copy of the said
documents which - as received by Sudan Tribune – did mention the
possibility of a military coup but dismissed it as an unlikely
outcome.
Al-Turabi is facing accusations by authorities in Khartoum that he is
coordinating with rebel groups based in South Sudan to topple the
government, a charge the PCP denies without renouncing its commitment
to regime change.
The PCP said that the NISS had refused their request to visit
Al-Sanousi who, the party warned, is an old man and in poor health.
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