Sudanese opposition leader Hassan Alturabi
The Sudan opposition leader has been taken into custody by Sudan's security forces with other members of his Popular Congress Party (PCP), TheAfricanVoices has learnt.
Members of Sudan State security arived late on monday at Turab's home in Khartoum and arrested him imediately. At the same time his Aides were also arrested.
Wasaal al-Mahdi, the wife of veteran Islamist Hussein al-Turabi, says security forces arrested al-Turabi around midnight Monday and took him to a Khartoum prison along with his bodyguard.
Al-Turabi has recently spoken out against President Omar al-Bashir's government and called for a popular uprising similar to the revolt in Tunisia that toppled the country's authoritarian president.
Al-Turabi was once the main ideologue and close ally of president Al-Bashir's regime until he was ousted in a bitter power struggle with his fellow Islamists.
The Sudanese government has long accused Al-Turabi of having strong ties with the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) which recently suffered the capturing of some of its senior members by the Sudanese government in western Darfur.
TheAfricanVoices Team
Nairobi
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