Sudan police clash with protesters

[nadinbrzezinski]

Source: Al Jazeera

Sudanese police have beaten and arrested students as protests broke out throughout Khartoum demanding the government resign, inspired by a popular uprising in neighbouring Egypt.

Hundreds of armed riot police on Sunday broke up groups of young Sudanese demonstrating in central Khartoum and surrounded the entrances of four universities in the capital, firing teargas and beating students at three of them.

Police beat students with batons as they chanted anti-government slogans such as "we are ready to die for Sudan" and "revolution, revolution until victory".

There were further protests in North Kordofan capital el-Obeid in Sudan's west, where around 500 protesters engulfed the market before police used tear gas to disperse them, three witnesses said.

"They were shouting against the government and demanding change," said witness Ahmed who declined to give his full name.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/2011130131451294670.html

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It is spreading.

[RandySF]

1. Sudan is a perfect example

of where almost any change is better than the status quo.

[Posteritatis]

2. And that's on top of the referendum in the south! (nt)

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. I know...

[bkkyosemite]

4. May be seeing a domino effect all over that area...

[grahamhgreen]

5. How far will t go? We need to be on the peoples side on these things.

[Joanne98]

6. Sudan protestor 'dies after police assault' in Khartoum

A student has died from his injuries after clashing with Sudanese police, activists say.

Mohammed Abdulrahman was studying at the Ahaliya University in Omdurman, scene of fierce fighting on Sunday.

The anti-government protests have been inspired by those in Tunisia and Egypt and were also organised on Facebook.

The demonstrations in Khartoum and its twin city, Omdurman, were against the high cost of living and the lack of political and social freedom in Sudan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12324646

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, nadinbrzezinski.