Sudan's security forces carried out a campaign of arrests against members of the dissolved National Congress Party (NCP), accusing them of inciting acts of violence, sabotage, and looting in a number of states.
The authorities arrested former leaders in Khartoum, most notably the assistant of ousted President Omar al-Bashir Hassabo Mohammad Abdalrahman, the former Minister Al-Amin Dafallah, and Bashir's uncle Tayeb Mustafa.
Earlier, security forces apprehended NCP leader Amin Hassan Omar, journalist Hussein Khojaly, and prominent columnist Ishaq Fadlallah.
This came following days of violent protests across the country.
A number of party leaders and cadres in the capital and various states were also arrested under the direction of the Dismantling of June 30 Regime Committee.
Sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the authorities issued arrest warrants against more than 200 leaders and activists of the National Party in North Darfur and el-Gadarif State, which witnessed major acts of violence.
North Darfur governor, Mohammad Hassan Arabi, said that five members were arrested for their involvement in acts of sabotage, including burning and looting of public facilities and markets and terrorizing unarmed citizens.
“It was an arranged and politically planned action by the former regime,” Arabi said in a Facebook post.
Protests erupted against the backdrop of the high prices and the scarcity of bread and fuel, but the authorities said they were exploited and turned into sabotage.
The committee asserted in a statement that it had sufficient information about the activities of former ruling party members, saying they committed arson acts, plundered properties, and terrorized unarmed citizens, which contradicts the protest pattern that the revolutionary forces have been organizing.
In December 2019, the Transitional Sovereign Council established the committee granting it broad powers to dismantle the former regime, fight corruption, and recover looted funds from the state.
