Sudan Police Use Tear Gas at Opposition Arrest Demonstration
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Sudanese police fired tear gas last night in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to disperse a demonstration against the Jan. 18 arrest of Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi.
Turabi’s arrest along with 11 other members of his Popular Congress Party came after an opposition alliance, known as the National Consensus Forces, said it was planning street protests such as the ones in Tunisia which forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee the North African country Jan. 14.