Sudan: Opposition leader arrested ahead of peace talk
http://www.hrlnews.com/2019/06/sudan-opposition-leader-arrested-ahead.html
Sudanese security forces have arrested a senior opposition politician
despite an offer from the country’s ruling generals offered to resume
talks with the pro-democracy protest movement.
Yasir Arman, the leader of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement
North, was arrested in Khartoum on Wednesday morning amid a continuing crackdown that has killed at least 60 people, the group said.
Mr Arman returned from exile take part in talks on a democratic
transition after Sudan’s military ousted Omar Bashir, the dictator who
ruled for 30 years, in April.
Earlier Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the chairman of the ruling
Transitional Military Council, issued a conciliatory statement offering
to resume talk with opposition leaders “in the interests of the nation.”
The offer came just 24 hours after Lt Gen Burhan said he would scrap
all talks with protest leaders and unilaterally rush through hasty
elections in defiance of earlier agreements between the two sides.
His deputy, Lt General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as
Hemedti, promised an “urgent and transparent” investigation into recent
killings by security forces, saying “any person who crossed boundaries
has to be punished.”