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Sudanese protesters rallied after Friday prayers in a city in the east of the country to protest the death in detention of a teacher arrested in connection with anti-government protests that swept the country, said witnesses.
An investigator confirmed Thursday that 36-year-old Professor Ahmed al-Kheir had died as a result of his injuries after being arrested last week by security agents in Khashm el-Girba, a town in Iraq. located in the east of the country.
Kheir, a member of the Sudanese People's Congress Party, was arrested for organizing anti-government demonstrations, a relative told AFP.
On Friday, crowds of protesters in Khashm el-Griba held a rally after weekly Muslim prayers to protest his death.
"We are going to give our blood to keep you alive," protesters chanted, who came out of several mosques after the prayer and organized a march, a witness told AFP by phone.
Kheir was arrested by agents of the country's powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), his uncle Ahmed Abdelwahad told AFP as the family withdrew his body in a morgue.
"We asked the NISS leader in Kbadala to bring the security agents who interrogated Kheir to Khashm el-Girba," Amer Ibrahim, an investigative committee chief, told reporters. to the prosecutor's office, stating that he had died in custody. .
"The man had injuries to his back, legs and other parts of his body that led to his death," Ibrahim said.
Deadly demonstrations have shaken Sudan since 19 December. Protesters held national rallies to ask President Omar al-Bashir to resign.
According to officials, 30 people died in the violence, while the human rights watch group Human Rights Watch said that at least 51 people had been killed.
Protesters also held rallies in Khartoum neighborhood and Omdurman, the capital's twin city, on Friday, witnesses said.
Police fired tear gas as protesters gathered by chanting "Freedom, Freedom" in front of an Omdurman mosque run by the main opposition party, Umma, witnesses said.
Police dispersed protesters and tear gas canisters hit the mosque compound, a witness said.
Police and security officials were not immediately available to comment.
The head of Umma, former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi, supported the protest and called on Bashir to step down.
Bashir, who refused to resign, came to power with a coup by the Islamist-backed state in 1989 that toppled Mahdi's elected government.
The demonstrations first broke out after the government's decision to triple the price of bread, but quickly escalated into rallies against the three-decade-old Bashir regime.
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