Sudanese security forces arrested the head of Al-Jazeera's office in Khartoum, the Qatari satellite channel reported on Sunday, the day after six protesters died in one of the bloodiest days since the coup military.
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"Security forces raided the house of Al-Moussalami al-Kabbachi, Al-Jazeera bureau chief in Sudan, and arrested him,"
the channel said on Twitter.
Sudan entered a period of turbulence on October 25 when General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, already head of the Sovereignty Council, the highest authority in Sudan after 30 years of dictatorship, arrested most of the civilians with whom he shared power.
That day, he also dissolved all the country's institutions and declared a state of emergency.
Since that date, Al-Jazeera has continued to cover the various demonstrations hostile to the putsch, in particular by broadcasting them live.
The channel also interviewed General Burhane less than a week ago, who has only granted two interviews since his coup.
Thursday, ignoring the condemnations coming from the four corners of the world, the head of the army decided to endorse the new state of affairs and renamed himself at the head of the Sovereignty Council, reformed for the occasion with the entry of non-political soldiers and civilians to replace those he had deposed or arrested.
But on Saturday, the supporters of civil power managed to rally tens of thousands of people across the country against the putsch, despite the internet cutoff which for three weeks has forced them to organize by SMS or via graffiti on the walls.
The UN and Western ambassadors had called on the security forces to avoid bloodshed in a country where already more than 250 demonstrators had been killed during the revolt which overthrew dictator Omar al-Bashir in 2019.
But the latest assessment given on Sunday morning by a union of pro-democracy doctors reflects the repression observed on Saturday by AFP correspondents in Khartoum, who heard the whistling of live ammunition and tear gas canisters.
The union lists six deaths, including a 15-year-old child, almost all mown by bullets, except for one, who died suffocated by tear gas.
After this day of mobilization, the death toll of demonstrators killed in the repression since October 25 is 21 dead and several hundred injured.
The police, she denies having opened fire on the demonstrators and said to have recorded
"39 seriously injured"
in its ranks.
