New trends of violence and brutality against civil protestors in Sudan

For the past few weeks, since mid-December last year, Sudan has been
witnessing a wave of mass protests demanding the stepping down of
the thirty-year rule of President Bashir. These protests came as a result
of the cumulative economic and political crisis that was caused by three
decades of dictatorship and corruption.
In the first weeks of the protests, security forces and the ruling party’s
civilian militias leaned to their tactic of firing live bullets at protestors to
violently suppress the uprising. This resulted in a number of causalities
that reached 27 victims in two weeks (between 19th of December to 4th
of January) according to Human Rights Watch. The death toll stands
now at 57 according to the count of medical sources. The latter may
continue to rise given the number of seriously wounded protestors,
currently receiving inpatient treatment.

Over the past two weeks, medical sources are alarmed by the rise in
new trends of violence against civil protestors by the security forces.

Of these new assaults is the horrific torture of detainees, which has
culminated in death. At least three detainees lost their lives as a direct
result of torture in National Intelligence and Security Service detention
centres.
Ahmed Alkhir, a 36 years old school teacher was arrested from a protest
in Khashm Algirba city in Eastern Sudan. One day later his family was
contacted by the National Intelligence and Security Services to
announce his death. At first, authorities claimed he died from food
poisoning. However, the medical forensic postmortem report stated
clearly the presence of signs of criminal violence that led to his
death.Later, during this week, a formal investigation committee
concluded that he was tortured to death in Security detention.

Read more here Sudan Doctors Syndicate- New trends of violence against civil protestors in Sudan