Sudanese security forces on Wednesday evening arrested former cabinet minister and leader in freedom and change Khaled Omar Youssef, Al-Arabiya correspondent al-Hadath reported.
The leader of the freedom and Change Alliance and a member of the dismantling and disempowerment committee, Wajdi Saleh, was also arrested earlier, and he appeared today before the public prosecution for questioning on charges related to “incitement” of the regular forces.
A judicial source told the Sudan Tribune that the proceedings once morest Saleh, who was the rapporteur of the dismantling and de-Empowerment Committee before it was frozen, came under Articles 85 and 62 of the criminal code on “inciting rebellion and fomenting discontent” among the regular forces.
For his part, Saleh announced via Twitter that he was referred with the secretary-general of the committee for the removal of empowerment Tayeb Othman to the northern section of Khartoum.
“We have been kept in custody in the northern section,” he added, noting that the complaint once morest them was filed by a commissioner of the Ministry of Finance.
Hunger strike
It is noteworthy that on November 27, the Sudanese Ministry of Information announced the release of Khaled Omar Youssef and others less than a day following the start of a hunger strike, following they were arrested within the wave of arrests carried out by the army on the twenty-fifth of October (2021).
Youssef and others went on hunger strike to protest their continued detention, despite the signing of an agreement between military commanders and former prime minister Abdallah Hamdok on November 23 to release all civilian detainees.
However, the release of the detainees was delayed a little later in order to complete the investigations, the Armed Forces announced at the time.
Proposal for a new transition period
Since then, however, the forces of freedom and change have not stopped calling for demonstrations and demanding a purely civilian authority away from the military component.
On Tuesday, those forces that were the political incubator of the Sudanese civilian government dissolved by the procedures of the twenty-fifth of October, that the vision presented to the Special Envoy of the secretary-general of the United Nations Volker Peretz includes ending the current situation and entering into a transitional period not exceeding two years according to new constitutional arrangements that distance the army from political life.
Khaled Youssef stressed before his arrest, the importance of building a broad front for the success of the current popular revolution, but stressed the need for all political forces to make concessions in order to form that front.