Sudan’s ruling body, the Transitional Sovereignty Council , has ratified a set of sweeping changes to the country’s penal code in a bid to implement its constitutional mandate and strengthen its democratic transition.
“We cancelled the Article 126 of the Sudanese Criminal Law and have ensured religious freedom and the equality in citizenship and rule of law,” he“All these changes are aiming at achieving equality in front of the laws. We have dropped all the articles that had led to any kind of discrimination. We ensure our people that the legal reformation will continue until we drop all the laws violating the human rights in Sudan.
Some activists questioned the timing, saying that the Covid-19 pandemic puts them at a disadvantage since awareness campaigns cannot be mobilised nor can law enforcement training be conducted. Abdel-Hay Youssef, the ultraconservative preacher, slammed the TSC chairman Abed-Fatah al Burhan and his deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo .
“Uprooting this obscene government is a mandatory duty & obligation of every capable person,” he added. The popular protests’ slogan of “Freedom, peace, and justice” represented the yearning of many Sudanese civil society, which led to a negotiation process culminating in a transitional political structure tasked with turning those dreams into tangible rulings.
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