About 600 Sudanese protesters chanted and waved banners and flags after Friday prayers in the capital Khartoum, demanding the release of opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi who was arrested two weeks ago. Mahdi, head of the opposition Umma Party, was detained after the public prosecutor opened an investigation into charges he insulted state security forces over a surge in violence in the western Darfur region. Mahdi served as prime minister in Sudan's last elected civilian government before he was overthrown by current President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 1989. Security forces, including dozens of riot police holding plastic shields, surrounded the demonstrators as they gathered at the Imam Abdel Rahman mosque in the Omdurman district of Khartoum to protest the detention. Read More http://ift.tt/1wzGLh9
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