Sudan Events – Agencies
The defense team for former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (80 years old) announced that he, along with former Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein and former Youth and Sports Minister Yusuf Abdul Fattah, was transferred from Omdurman to Merowe in northern Sudan for treatment on Thursday. According to lawyer Mohammed al-Hassan al-Amin, a member of Al-Bashir’s defense team, Bakri Hassan Saleh, the former vice president, had been moved to the military hospital in Merowe three weeks earlier after suffering a health issue.
Al-Amin explained that the transfer of Al-Bashir and his colleagues from the Wadi Sayidna military area in northern Omdurman was due to their need for companions because of their health conditions, and the fact that entering and exiting the area was met with security complexities, as well as challenges in bringing their regular medications.
The lawyer revealed that Al-Bashir and his group had been detained under a security order, not a judicial one, after the police had released all the former regime symbols in April 2023 and had them sign a commitment to appear before the court or return to detention when requested after the security situation improved in the country.
Al-Amin stated that a group of senior army officers, referring to themselves as the “Comrades in Arms,” had recently submitted a memo to the Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, requesting the transfer of Al-Bashir and his detained colleagues to Merowe Hospital due to their health conditions.
He also noted that Al-Bashir, Saleh, Hussein, and Abdul Fattah had spent 10 months during the war at Alia Hospital, which belongs to the medical corps in Omdurman, under the guard of military intelligence and the judicial police. They had suffered when the area was besieged by the Rapid Support Forces, and shells had landed in Al-Bashir’s room.
