The Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, issued emergency orders throughout Sudan to ban rallies, gatherings, marches and strikes and the disrupt among the public facilities.
These emergency orders allow the police to inspect any building, restrict the movement of persons and public transports, arrest the suspects, who commit infractions that are included in the Emergency Law, as well as the confiscation of the funds and properties of the suspect, during the investigation period.
The orders also enable the authorities to control all the properties and facilities, seize money, shops, goods and objects suspected of being illegal.
The emergency orders empowered the Sates Attorney the authority to ban any defense by the suspect and to form new courts and the hear cases related to the state of emergency.
These orders prohibit also the preparation, dissemination and circulation of news that harm the state and the citizens, or call for undermining the constitutional order and spread hatred, racism and discrimination by any means of publication.
The new orders also banned the distribution, storage, sale and transport of the fuel and subsidized goods outside the official channels, the regulation of dealing with the foreign exchange and, as well as, determining the transfer of cash and gold through ports and crossings.
The president declared a state of emergency for a year, on Friday, dissolving the central government and state governments, and called the parliament to postpone the constitutional amendments that would have enabled him to seek a new presidency in the presidential elections in 2020.
In parallel, many protests erupted in central of Khartoum, yesterday, asking the president Omar Al-Bashir to step down from the presidency.
The workers’ rally considered that the practice of excessive violence, arrest of doctors, the violation of the University of Medical and Technological Sciences students in a humiliating manner, as well as the elimination of the so-called margin of freedoms by banning the political activities including the partisan activities, including the entry of the students’ basement, houses, and dormitories, stopping the political, cultural, social and artistic activity, in addition to searching and arresting without a court order are all orders dedicated to enshrine totalitarianism and the violation of fundamental rights . In fact, they reflect the oppression of Omar Al-Bashir regime; the protestors asked for the departure of this latter and the respect of the people’s sovereignty.
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