Police ‘attack’ as Sudan protesters gather at mosques

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Sudanese police on Friday “attacked” with tear gas and rubber bullets as demonstrators gathered at mosques for weekly anti-regime protests sparked by inflation, a rights group said.
“Still large numbers of police forces are surrounding the central mosques,” said an official of the Organisation for Defence of Rights and Freedoms, representing political, media, trade union and other activists promoting human rights. “It seems rubber bullets and tear gas were used,” he said, adding that information was still preliminary.
One of the mosques targeted was that of the opposition Umma party in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, said the official, asking not to be named. That mosque was a focus of demonstrators a week earlier, when hundreds who gathered were also confronted with tear gas and rubber bullets, witnesses said at the time. The official with the rights group said there had been arrests.
Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel told AFP that its crew was briefly detained and the cameraman roughed up while reporting at the Omdurman mosque.