MaximsNewsNetwork: SUDAN ARRESTS: PAGAN AMUM, YASIR ARMAN, ABBAS GUMMA - UNMIS

MaximsNewsNetwork: 07Decenber 2009 - UNMIS: Secretary General Pagan Amum of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), his deputy for northern Sudan Yasir Arman and Abbas Gumma a state minister at the interior ministry were arrested by security forces on Monday along with over 100 people as they tried to participate in a protest in front of the National Assembly in Khartoum. The ruling National Congress Party outlawed the rally announcing on Sunday that it was banned and requested people to stay home. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Khartoums Omdurman suburb waving banners and flag, and chanting their support, under the careful watch of riot police and other security forces that dispersed the crowds with tear gas. VOXPOP (Arabic) Man, We are demonstrating because of the injustice by the National Congress Party, because they refused to sign laws on security, the Abyei area and the referendum. VOXPOP (Arabic) Man The demonstration is because of falseness, injustices and freedom. Because the National Congress Party has been cheating the people and telling them that there is justices but there is not. Now it is out in the open and thats where we are here. We are students from Khartoum University we came for a peaceful demonstrates with our books and pens. The SPLM leadership convened an emergency meeting in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba after the arrests and condemned what it called the unjust arrests. Addressing journalists in his official residence ...



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