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KHARTOUM (AFP) - An Islamist lawyer, Ahmed Kamal Eddin, has been arrested in western Sudan for defending dissident Islamists involved in recent anti-government riots, a human rights activist source reported on Sunday. Eddin was arrested on Wednesday while leaving court in Nyala, south Darfur, where he was helping to defend followers of Hassan al-Turabi's Popular National Congress (PNC) party. The group was being tried for involvement in last month's anti-government riots there, according to activist Ghazi Suleiman, who is a lawyer and chairman of the National Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (NARD). Eddin, a Turabi supporter, was brought from Nyala on Friday and is now in custody in Khartoum without any charges filed against him, said Suleiman, denouncing the detention as a human rights violation. Turabi bolted earlier this year from the ruling National Congress to form his own party, the PNC, after waging a losing power struggle with President Omar el-Beshir, whom he had helped to seize power in a 1989 coup. |
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