Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Friday ordered the release of 400 female inmates from Omdurman Women’s Prison and a review of the justice process for detainees accused of cooperating with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with the aim of accelerating trials and safeguarding legal rights, Anadolu reports. The directive came during an inspection visit by Burhan to the women’s prison in Omdurman, west of the capital, Khartoum. In a post on the US social media company X, Burhan said he ordered the “immediate release of 400 inmates, including mothers detained with their children,” adding that all financial penalties related to public-rights cases would be waived. He also said he instructed officials to “reclassify cases […]
