CAIRO — Thousands of residents poured out onto the streets of Sudan’s eastern province of Kassala to denounce the death of a protester last week following demonstrations calling for the president’s ouster, officials and activists said. Activists said al-Khair’s death raises the toll of the protests to 53. The authorities refused to provide a cause of death to al-Khair’s family, but his body, including his groin area, was covered in bruises, a relative of his said. Al-Khair’s funeral quickly turned into a protest, with thousands chanting: “We are all Ahmed!” and “just fall,” the slogan and Twitter hashtag of the Dec. 19 demonstrations. Kassala’s police chief denied any police wrongdoing and blamed al-Khair’s death on an “illness,” without providing any details.

Source: Washington Post February 02, 2019 13:56 UTC