A man died on Sunday in the crackdown on protests in Sudan, a country mired in violence since an October coup, doctors said.
The death coincides with the start of a visit to the country by the UN envoy for human rights.
As thousands of protesters demonstrated in Khartoum, a 51-year-old man was hit by a bullet, said the doctors’ union, which counts 82 deaths since Gen. Abdel Fattah Al Burhan’s Oct. 25 coup.
The deceased was a patient “coming out of an amputation” and tried to escape the “tear gas” that reached the hospital where he was.
Security forces also fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters in Khartoum and its suburbs, AFP journalists noted.
The UN human rights expert for Sudan, the Senegalese Adama Dieng, makes his first visit to the country since the military coup.
He met with the UN permanent envoy in Khartoum, Volker Perthes, on Sunday and is scheduled to meet with various civil society representatives to investigate the violence.
The military government acknowledges that some of its agents opened fire, but says that they never gave the order, while accusing protesters of stabbing a police general to death in January.
The Sudanese authorities have been criticized by the international community for the bloody crackdown and ongoing raids against activists.
More than a hundred march organisers, protesters and politicians are currently in prison and several of them recently went on hunger strike to denounce the “mistreatment” they say they are suffering in prison.
Source: Eluniverso
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