Sudan Cuts State Of Emergency To Six Months Over Protests.
Updated March 11, 2019
“A six-month state of emergency has been approved by a majority,” the speaker of parliament Ibrahim Ahmed Omer said after lawmakers voted on the presidential decree.Deadly protests erupted on December 19 after a government decision to triple the price of bread. Monday’s vote by lawmakers backed a recommendation from a parliamentary committee to shorten the state of emergency to six months.“The parliament didn’t want to reject Bashir’s decree, so it came out with a compromise by keeping the state of emergency for six months,” said prominent Sudanese human rights defender Nabil Adib.
Bashir has also issued a slew of tough measures to end the protests, banning unauthorised rallies and setting up special emergency courts to investigate offences.Scores of protesters have appeared before the emergency courts already and several have been jailed, while nine women have received sentences of 20 lashes each for joining rallies.
Bashir swept to power in an Islamist-backed coup in 1989 that toppled the government of Sadiq al-Mahdi, chief of the Umma Party and father of Mariam.
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