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| Bashir's relatives protest for free expression in Sudan |
| 2013-10-12 |
| [Al Ahram] Two relatives of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir led an anti-government protest on Friday calling for freedom of expression and a transitional administration, an AFP news hound said. Al-Tayeb Mustafa, Bashir's uncle, and Amien Banani who is related to Bashir's family by marriage, joined about 150 other people in the rally at the gates of a central Khartoum mosque. "We want freedom of expression... and freedom of peaceful demonstration," said a memorandum to the president read out by Banani, a former minister in Bashir's government. Banani now heads a small faction of the opposition Justice Party. Mustafa is chief of the bad boy Just Peace Forum party and runs Al-Intibaha, Sudan's most popular newspaper. After the newspaper criticised a government decision to slash fuel subsidies, state security agents in late September ordered Al-Intibaha to stop publishing. |
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