Photographer of "The Independent Arabia" in Sudan, Hassan Hamed, revealed that he was severely beaten and his camera was smashed by a police force in the capital, Khartoum.

This guiding note, developed together with CIVICUS, sets out some of the key aspects of the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly as covered in international law, including under the UN Human Rights Committee General Comment 37.

Yesterday, Friday, November 5th, the Sudanese Doctors Committee announced that the number of victims of the protests since October 25th has risen to 14 dead and 181 injured, many of whom are still critically injured, in addition to other injuries that have led to permanent disabilities among the demonstrators.

At the 32nd special session of the Human Rights Council on the human rights implications of the ongoing situation in the Sudan, the Council adopted Resolution A/HRC/S-32/L.1 in which it condemned in the strongest possible terms the military takeover on 25 October 2021 by the Sudanese military against the Transitional Government and called for the immediate restoration of the civilian-led Transitional Government.

The number of detainees in South Darfur since the military coup has reached (36), most of whom are from the alliance of The Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC).