On the 14th day of anti-government protests sparked by rising inflation in Sudan, over 1000 protesters have been arrested and detained in secret locations.
The protest on Friday was broken up by security forces using tear gas, after the country's information minister, Ghazi Al-Sadiq, said the protesters were "rioters" who were threatening the country's stability, and urged the Sudanese people “not to allow the rioters to undermine security and stability of the Sudan.”
Members of the rights group, Organization for Defense of Rights and Freedoms said that whereabouts of those arrested remain unknown with several believed to be detained in "ghost houses".
One of those detained is the Sudanese free lance journalist, Talai Saad, who had provided the news agency AFP with photographs of the protests.
Speaking anonymously, a member of the group said,
“They don’t tell you where they are. You are not even allowed to ask,”
Sudan has blamed the protests on a "foreign agenda" spurred on by the US.
