Opposition leader Hassan Al-Turabi is urging the government to allow the Sudanese to elect their leaders, protest freely and set up media outlets without a license, a newspaper reported Sunday. âFreedom has been guaranteed by Allah to the people who must be given the opportunity to freely elect their rulers,â the independent Akhbar Al Youm daily quoted Turabi, secretary general of the Popular Congress Party, as saying. President Omar Al-Beshir last month freed Turabi, a former ally turned rival, from more than two years of house arrest as part of a campaign to promote political reconciliation in the north.
| Purely as a matter of positioning them on the scale, he'll probably get away with that statement in Sudan; in Soddy Arabia he probably wouldn't, but might. And in Zim-Bob-We he'd be back in jug before he was done speaking. |
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