Anonymous ID: fff4bc Jan. 1, 2019, 1:44 p.m. No.4555185   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Sudan: Calls grow for Omar al-Bashir to step down

 

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is facing growing calls to step down following deadly protests over a dire economic crisis in the East African country.

 

Twenty-two Sudanese opposition political parties and groups demanded on Tuesday that Bashir transfer power to a "sovereign council" and a transitional government that would set a "suitable" date for democratic elections.

 

The groups, calling themselves the National Front for Change, include some Islamist factions that were once allied with Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 military coup, as well as breakaway groups from large traditional parties.

 

"This government does not have the ability to overcome the economic crisis because the economic crisis is basically a political crisis," Mubarak Elfadel, Chairman of the Umma Party, told reporters at a press conference in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.

 

"The government needs to end its rule and step down. We need to form a provisional council and a transitional government that will run this new stage and prepare us for new elections."

 

The groups said they will submit a memorandum with their demands to the president on Wednesday. They warned that failure to transition to a new political system would have "dire consequences" for Sudan.

 

The move came as a second party, Sudan Reform Now, announced it was withdrawing from the coalition government. …

 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/01/sudan-calls-grow-omar-al-bashir-step-190101195901621.html

Anonymous ID: fff4bc Jan. 1, 2019, 1:48 p.m. No.4555241   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5256 >>5453

Netflix has dropped an episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj that sharply criticised Saudi Arabia following a complaint that the kingdom made to the webstreaming service, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

 

The second episode of the web show shone the spotlight on Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's (MBS) alleged part in the October 2 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul's Saudi Consulate, which tipped the kingdom into one of its worst crises.

 

The episode also highlighted Saudi Arabia's role in the war in Yemen - a conflict that has so far killed around 10,000 people since 2015 and pushed 14 million Yemenis to the brink of famine.

 

In the episode, Minhaj called for a reassessment of the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia, branding the Yemen War “the biggest tragedy of the MBS era”. He also criticised Silicon Valley for "swimming in Saudi cash".

 

“We strongly support artistic freedom worldwide and only removed this episode in Saudi Arabia after we had received a valid legal request — and to comply with local law, ” Netflix said, in a statement to Financial Times,

 

Netflix is referring to Article 6 of Saudi Arabia's anti-cybercrime law that states that “production, preparation, transmission, or storage of material impinging on public order, religious values, public morals, and privacy, through the information network or computers” is a crime. This can be punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine reaching SR3m ($800,000).

 

Although the episode has been pulled from Netflix in Saudi Arabia, it can still be viewed on the show's YouTube channel.

 

https://www.trtworld.com/life/netflix-pulls-comedy-show-episode-critical-of-saudi-arabia-22998