A protester dies due to the repression of new mobilizations against the military authorities of Sudan

The authorities cut off Internet access in the face of a new day of protests

30 (EUROPE PRESS)

At least one protester died on Wednesday due to the repression of a new day of protests against the military authorities of Sudan, mobilizations that have taken place since the coup d’état of October 2021, which brought down the transitional government.

The Central Committee of Doctors of Sudan has indicated in a message on its account on the social network Facebook that the deceased, who has not yet been identified, “received a bullet wound in the chest” in the context of “excessive violence and brutality” of the security forces in Bahri.

“As Sudanese prepare for the ‘Million March’ on June 30 and peaceful revolutionaries prepare to topple the stronghold of the coup plotters, the coup forces revealed their morale and did not hesitate to use violence,” has denounced.

Thus, the organization has detailed that the number of deaths due to the repression of the demonstrations has risen to 103, while emphasizing that “the martyrs continue to be the banner of the glorious revolution of December (2018) and will be immortalized in the history”.

During the day, the authorities have cut off Internet access in the country in the face of the demonstrations this Thursday, as reported by the organization NetBlocks, which has detailed through its website that the alterations in the service have begun at 8:00 a.m. (local time).

“The incident comes in the midst of protesters taking to the streets to call for a civilian government in opposition to the military junta that seized power in the October 2021 coup,” he said, before adding that the data from network show that the restrictions affect “multiple Internet providers in mobile and fixed telephony, including the state operator Sudatel”.

In this sense, NetBlocks has highlighted that it is “a pattern consistent with an intentional alteration of the service that corroborates user reports about the drop in service in multiple cities.” “National connectivity is at 17 percent of usual levels,” she noted.

“The restrictions impact many Internet users in Sudan and are likely to significantly limit coverage of events on the ground,” he explained, while recalling that “the military junta has used a variety of techniques to silence to opposing voices, including network disruptions, social media restrictions, and telecommunications blockades from October 2021.”

The protests continue amid contacts between the military authorities, headed by the head of the Army and president of the Sovereign Transitional Council, Abdelfatá al-Burhan, and opposition political and civil organizations to try to solve the crisis.

The October coup d’état led to the dismissal of the civilian prime minister, Abdalá Hamdok, although international pressure led to an agreement to reinstate him in office in November, which caused him to lose support among the opposition and revolutionary forces.

However, Hamdok presented his resignation in January in protest against the repression of the mobilizations and after the military authorities expelled various civil groups from the Executive, arguing that they were acting against the interests of the State.

The transitional authorities were established after an agreement between the previous military junta, which emerged after the 2019 coup against Omar Hassan al Bashir, and various civil organizations and opposition political formations. This Government had initiated a battery of social and economic reforms and has reached a peace agreement with important rebel groups from Darfur and other areas of the country.