By AFPMore by this AuthorKHARTOUM,Sudanese security agents on Friday released a prominent editor who had been detained for weeks for criticising a state of emergency, as scores of protesters including football fans held anti-government rallies, witnesses said. We are now on our way home," his son Jihad Mirghani told AFP. The US-educated engineer turned journalist has often been targeted by security agents, who have detained him several times, confiscated copies of his newspaper or barred its publication without giving any reason. "No military trial for the accused," protesters chanted after Sudanese media reported that security agents who had interrogated Ahmed al-Kheir would be tried by a military court. Mr Kheir was taken away from his home by security agents, alleging that he was a protest organiser, his relatives told AFP after his arrest.

Source: Daily Nation March 30, 2019 04:30 UTC