The Sudanese Security Forces killed a demonstrator by running him over while participating in a demonstration in Omdurman city, according to the Central Sudanese Doctors Committee, which added that the death toll of protestors had risen to 119 since October 25, 2021.
The committee added that the Sudanese security forces “used the Military Medical Hospital to position themselves and fired tear gas at the demonstrators in Omdurman”, emphasising that “hospitals are sacred, and should not be utilised in favours of one party against the other.”
The United Nations expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, Adama Diang, had recently called on the Sudanese army to “put an end to the excessive use of force and lift the state of emergency in the country.”
Diang expressed concern about the negative effects of the state of emergency on human rights, attacks on medical facilities and health workers, harassment of media and journalists, arbitrary arrests, detention of protesters and human rights activists, and the use of torture and other ill-treatment.
