Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) – Press Release (01.09.2022)

Yesterday, Wednesday, August 31, 2022 AD, a procession witnessed the continued practice of the coup authorities’ repression and violence against peaceful demonstrators, which led to the martyrdom of the martyr Hatem Najmuddin Obaid Koko after he was hit in the head with a tear gas canister, he was then run over, according to eyewitnesses, by a vehicle belonging to the coup forces.

The martyr Hatem Najm Al-Din Obaid Koko holds the number 117 among his peers, the martyrs who were presented by the Sudanese people during the resistance to the coup of October 25, 2021 AD in parallel with the thousands of injured and injured as a result of the systematic violence of the coup forces.

In contrast to the usual violence by the coup forces, medical sources reported that the procedures for completing the exhumation of the body of the martyr Hatem Najm al-Din from the mortuary witnessed a deliberate delay and attempts to falsify and modify the reasons and place of martyrdom.

Referring to its occurrence in the hospital or as a result of a traffic accident, which was rejected by the doctors. This behavior reflects the new tendencies of some elements of the coup forces to falsify and manipulate facts, a behavior that besides violating the law, it contradicts morals and professionalism.

In addition to what was mentioned above, eyewitnesses attributed practices of violation of control and linkage to some employees of the coup forces on the evening of Wednesday, August 31, hours after the convoy ended by firing tear gas indiscriminately at citizens and shops on Airport Street.

The behavior of the coup and its elements confirms their systematic, deliberate and growing violence due to the lack of accountability for abuses; And the lack of the professional aspect when performing the duty and tasks in a way that confirms the necessity of ending and defeating this coup, the rule of law and the reform of large sectors of the regular forces in order to carry out its duties to the fullest extent, by applying the law in a professional, disciplined and professional manner based on protecting the people and respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.

We believe that our people will defeat tyrannical tyrants as they defeated those who preceded them, and that the sacrifices of the Sudanese men and women for freedom, democracy and peace will reach their limit on a near victory day; We renew our call to all the revolutionary forces for unity and joint action to end this coup and defeat it and restore the democratic transition again.

We ask God Almighty to the martyr of August 31, 2022 AD Hatem Najmuddin Obaid Koko mercy and forgiveness and to his family and relatives patience and good condolences and to expedite the full recovery of all the wounded and injured, reveal the fate of the missing, and reunite them, whether they are alive or martyrs; The people of Sudan are victorious over the tyrants who killed the people and plundered the country. A victory is not far away.

Our people are Mansour and the coup is defeated.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Media Committee

Thursday 1 September 2022

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Important Statement (21.08.2022)

About (the disaster of torrents and rain and the coup authority’s disregard for the dangerous humanitarian situation)

The Forces of Freedom and Change are following with great concern the catastrophic and tragic conditions that large parts of the country are experiencing as a result of torrential rains and floods in many regions. This resulted in the destruction of thousands of homes and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of families from their areas.

The repercussions of the humanitarian and health conditions are exacerbating terribly in Al-Manaqil locality in Gezira State, South Darfur, River Nile, Kassala, White Nile and South Kordofan, and the matter is likely to get worse and cause health and environmental damages with expectations of an increase in the levels of the Nile during the last week of this month, and an increase in rainfall.

The state of drowning and torrential rains that hit a number of regions in an unprecedented manner is the result of the government neglect of the coup authority and its abject failure to make any preemptive arrangements for the fall season. Operating dams, opening and cleaning canals and canals, or responding to citizens’ warnings of cracking local dams, as happened in South Darfur, and the totality of this failure is added to the balance of the October 25 coup, which is studded with incidents of continuous failures that have accumulated throughout the previous months.

The failure of the coup was not limited to the lack of preparation and preparation, but extended its practice of silence and complete silence regarding this disaster, continuing its disdain and disregard for people’s lives and the silence of its media institutions as if those disasters were in another country.

What is required now is a concerted effort and popular aid to confront this disaster and to declare the country a disaster area to attract and attract regional and international aid to provide relief and aid to the afflicted in all parts of the country and to take early precaution to confront the subsequent repercussions and the spread of epidemics and diseases.

Accordingly, a transparent investigation must be launched with popular participation after overcoming this ordeal to find out the causes and shortcomings and to hold accountable the parties that caused the exacerbation of these disasters, which were the main cause of the current unprecedented catastrophic situation.

The Forces of Freedom and Change affirm that they are monitoring the situation and will communicate with regional and international parties to extend an urgent helping hand to those affected; And she asserts that these facts prove more than ever that the continuation of this coup will only leave the country devastation and bring it into ruin. There is no chance for a better future except by ending it and defeating it and restoring the civil democratic transition.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Executive Office

Sunday August 21, 2022 AD

Sudan: Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination – Joint Press Release – Popular Campaign Announcement (20.08.2022)

As is typical of tyrannical dictatorial regimes, they do not hesitate to spill the blood of the people as rivers as a sacrifice in order to maintain their hold on the throne that is placed over the skulls of innocent people, and they turn a blind eye when rain overflows and leaves behind what we cannot endure, intensifying the horror of the calamity when the official role of the state falls short of relief efforts and warding off disasters and the wrath of nature. However, as it was expected, the coup authorities adopt the same strategy as the previous government and concentrate their efforts on supplying tools of oppression and robbery of the citizens, as if there is a surplus of Sudanese lives, and it is okay for two-thirds to die and the remaining third to live at the mercy of the boot.

Our patient people:

We, Khartoum State Resistance Committees Coordination extend our condolences to you and to ourselves for the loss of precious lives that the Lord Almighty has chosen from among us. We pray that God accepts them as martyrs, and we also pray for a speedy recovery for the injured, as well as for strength for those affected by the torrential rains that have caused catastrophic conditions in various parts of the country.

And since we have decided to carry the banner of change, it was necessary for us not stand by and watch as thousands of our people’s homes collapsed in Al-Manaqil and the surrounding villages, as well as in many other areas in Sudan’s cities and villages, leaving them without shelter, food, or medicine, or even the most basic necessities of life.

In light of these dire circumstances, we are raising the state of emergency to the highest level and calling for a popular campaign to unite our efforts with the honorable people of our country and charitable and community organizations in order to aid our brothers and sisters. We will announce later the means by which we will coordinate with the actors and how we will deliver aid to areas in need.

Signed by:

South Omdurman Resistance Committees Coordination

Umbada Neighborhoods Committees Coordination

Bahri Neighborhoods Committees

El Hajj Yousif Neighborhoods Committees Association

Al Arbaeen, Al Fil, Al Mawradah and Al Arda Coordination

Sharg Al Nil Janub Coordination

Umbada Dar Al Alsalam Resistance Committees

Old Omdurman Resistance Committees Coordination

August 20, 2022

Sudan: Sudanese Professionals Association – Statement (20.08.2022)

The strike is a form of peaceful resistance to dictatorial regimes and means the paralysis of state institutions that the military and their allies have robbed and are trying to use to suppress us.

Or deal with it.

Our resistance people chanted with our throats eager for freedom and with our honorable martyrs, “The revolution is a union and a neighborhood committee.”

In order to prepare for the strike and raise the degree of organization through the general political strike committees, linking and coordinating them with the disobedience committees in the neighborhoods.

We also call on the masses of the Sudanese people in all the cities, villages, and regions of Sudan, especially the resistance committees, to continue the peaceful resistance and adhere to it, improve it and rise by degrees. Organizing it by initiating the formation of civil disobedience committees in neighborhoods and al-Furqan.

We will proceed in the battle of national liberation by all peaceful means and means to seize the full civil authority of the revolutionary forces, provided that the study continues among the revolutionary forces to chart renewed paths for the resistance action.

The valiant struggles of our people and the glory and immortality of our honorable martyrs lasted, and the revolution was free and victorious.

August 20, 2022 AD

Sudan: Sudanese Bar Association – Steering Committee – Declaration on the continuation of the dialogue activities on the transitional constitutional framework (09.08.2022)

For the second day, the activities of the dialogue workshop on the transitional constitutional framework, organized by the Sudanese Bar Association, continued. with the wide participation of political, professional, civil, revolutionary and societal forces and armed struggle movements.

The workshop aims to find foundations for political consensus and democratic consolidation on issues of constitutional arrangements, this is in recognition of the importance of constitutional dialogue and broad participation in the making of the transitional constitution and its protection from the abuse of power and the disruption of its provisions.

The first session of the second day was initiated by Counselor Tariq Mubarak Majzoub, Head of the Constitution and Research Department at the Ministry of Justice, on the axis of the transitional authority institutions, their levels and who constitutes them. For her part, Ms. Safaa Al-Aqib, a human rights activist in the field of peace and gender and head of the Darfur Women’s Forum, initiated the second session on the axis of peace in the transitional constitution.

Professor Kamal Muhammad Al-Amin, lawyer and legal expert, initiated the dialogue in the third session on basic rights and freedoms. The participants’ interventions in the three axes dealt with visions and positions on the institutions of the transitional authority, their levels and how they were formed, and about the peace agreement and its completion, and the document of rights and freedoms in the transitional constitution.

August 9, 2022

Sudan: Al Shabia Resistance Committees – Extrajudicial Arrests (07.08.2022)

The coup militias detained a number of revolutionaries today in the city of Bahri, a practice that is not uncommon. These forces also stormed a number of neighborhoods in an attempt to harass and spread terror among the residents.

Over the past period, these militias have conducted arrests in violation of and in total disregard for the law. We warn these forces not to re-enter the neighborhoods again, and our response on the ground will be immediate and decisive. Additionally, we warn them not to arrest any revolutionary inside or outside of the neighborhoods.

The use of tactics such as terrorism, intimidation, and extrajudicial arrests will only serve to strengthen our resolve and belief in the cause.

Media Office

Al Shabia Resistance Committees

August 7, 2022

Sudan: Forces for Freedom and Change – press release about Central Council for Freedom and Change meeting (07.08.2022)

The meeting of the Central Council for Freedom and Change was held on Saturday, August 6, 2022 AD at the National Umma Party House, with the presence and participation of its blocs, parties and components.

The meeting, which lasted for nearly six hours, deliberated on many political and regulatory agendas and related issues.

The meeting renewed the Alliance of Forces of Freedom and Change’s adherence to its political position based on ending and defeating the October 25 coup, restoring the democratic transition and building transitional, civilian constitutional institutions of governance.

The meeting also directed the Executive Office to prepare a political declaration that includes the coalition’s visions on political issues.

The meeting approved a number of organizational directives related to the work of the institutions of the Forces of Freedom and Change coalition, that the regular meetings of the Central Council should be held monthly.

With the possibility of holding emergency meetings if necessary, and issued the necessary directives to manage and develop the work of the specialized committees during the coming period.

The meeting decided to refer the draft constitutional declaration and the notes and proposals for amendments submitted about it to a legal and political committee that includes in its membership the Legal Committee and members of the Central Council representing the blocs, parties, and parties that submitted observations or proposals for amendments to the draft constitutional declaration.

Provided that the joint committee presents the draft declaration in its final form to an emergency session of the Central Council to be held within two weeks from its date with the purpose of approving it in its final form.

The meeting also adopted the general guidelines for the vision of the forces of freedom and change to be presented during the workshop organized by the steering committee of the Sudanese Bar Association on the basic issues of the country’s transitional constitutional framework after the end and defeat of the October 25 coup, the restoration of the democratic transition and the realization of the glorious December revolution slogans of freedom, peace and justice in a democratic civil state.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Media Committee

August 7, 2022 AD

Sudan: Forces of Freedom and Change – Important Statement (02.08.2022)

About (the statements of the commander of the Rapid Support Forces about the failure of the coup)

The commander of the Rapid Support Forces, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo admitted in an interview with BBC Arabic channel, the failure of the October 25, 2021 coup, the collapse of the country in all fields and its announcement once again to accept the integration of Rapid Support into the army to establish a single regular army.

These statements proved that the mass popular movement, which confronted the coup and resisted it from its first hour, with determination and courage without breaking, is progressing in the direction of achieving its complete and undiminished goals. And that the revolutionary accumulation of our people’s struggles will pave the way towards completing the tasks of the glorious December revolution and overcoming all plans to block the road ahead, whatever their source.

Getting the country out of the current tunnel and avoiding the risk of regression to the worst scenarios will only come with an actual response to the people’s demands by ending this coup completely and establishing a full democratic civil authority that will lead the burden of the transition according to new constitutional arrangements according to which the transitional period will be managed and the achievement of the goals of the December revolution and its slogans of freedom, peace, justice and the dismantling of empowerment, the formation of a single professional national army that carries out its constitutional and legal duties and exits from political action and the circle of economic and commercial work, and is fully committed to the country’s foreign policies by not engaging in any diplomatic or military activities parallel to the policies and directions of the state, and that the security institutions carry out their duties in protecting the country’s resources from looting and smuggling.

We in the Forces of Freedom and Change affirm that the duty of the current moment for all the forces of the revolution is to unite ranks, unite visions and positions, sharpen determination, overcome differences and petty matters, rise to the ranks and continue the peaceful civil struggle which fulfills the hopes and aspirations of our people in ending this coup and defeating it completely, restoring the democratic transition and realizing the dreams of the martyrs, wounded, missing and detainees of this revolution in the civil and democratic state.

Forces of Freedom and Change – Media Committee

August 2, 2022

Sudan: Khartoum City Resistance Committees Coordination – Our People’s Steadfastness on July 31 March (31.07.2022)

Our Heroic People:

Salutations to the sons and daughters of our defiant people, as well as to all the defiant resistance fighters in all regions of Sudan who are steadily advancing toward realizing their objectives. And we pray for God’smercy and forgiveness for the martyrs of our glorious revolution as they await justice for their pure souls and for the safe return of the missing, and for the full freedom of the detainees.

Today, the processions of honorable revolutionaries have been subjected to grave violations, documented crimes, and extreme repression in the capital, Khartoum, in front of the People’s Palace and the city of Bahri and Omdurman. The brutal coup authority used tear gas, stun grenades, sticks and batons, resulting in dozens of injured and many arrests. Which clearly confirms that the dictatorial coup authority is repeating the same scenario of crimes and oppression that the defunct salvation regime pursued, and that it is a direct extension of it, and it will inevitably meet the same miserable fate — complete overthrow.

Despite the arsenal of tyranny, the truth’s will prevailed against the machine of oppression. It was a clear representation of the standpoint of our people in rejecting the authority of the coup, and the brave, honorable act of the free revolutionaries.

We also urge on all the forces of revolution and change to quickly organize in a broad front to overthrow the coup and to emphasize the continuity of resistance and the diversity of its tools and forms until the demands of the mass movement are achieved, and the will of the people is not overpowered.

Long live our people free and victorious

Media Office

July 31, 2022

Sudan: Sudanese Congress Party – Statement (31.07.2022)

A statement of solidarity with the Organization of the Families of the Martyrs of the Glorious December Revolution and a condemnation of the coup authority’s decision to evacuate the organization’s headquarters

The Council of Ministers of the coup d’état, through the General Administration of Government Real Estate, issued a letter on July 12, 2022 AD Instructed the Organization of the Families of the Martyrs of the Glorious December Revolution to evacuate the organization’s headquarters within 72 hours from the date of the letter, and the organization refused to implement the decision and announced through its Secretary-General not to comply with the decision of the coup authority.

We in the Sudanese Congress Party condemn and reject this decision altogether and in detail, and we declare our full solidarity with the Organization of the Families of the Martyrs of the Glorious December Revolution. Cutting the path of completing the process of civil democratic transformation, as well as being an extension of the cycles of regression from the goals of the revolution that this brute authority has been implementing, foremost of which are the files of justice, this necessitates the continuation of the peaceful mass struggle that seeks to end this coup through all tried and creative means, leading to a general strike and comprehensive civil disobedience.

Long live our people free and victorious

Information Secretariat

July 31, 2022 AD