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Sudanese authorities must respect freedom to protest: UN rights office 

Sudanese authorities must respect freedom to protest: UN rights office 

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Amid daily mass protests in Sudan and the reported lethal shooting of three demonstrators in Khartoum on Thursday, the UN rights office, OHCHR has urged the country’s military rulers to respect people’s fundamental freedoms. 

Tensions have been running high since generals seized power in a coup last October, and there have been daily protests since the resignation of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok last weekend, as OHCHR’s Seif Magango tells UN News’s Daniel Johnson. 

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Daniel Johnson/UN News - Geneva
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Salah Naser