US issues sanctions on Sudan’s police over protest crackdown

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US issues sanctions on Sudan’s police over protest crackdown
The US accused a police force of beating, arresting and shooting live ammunition at protesters, killing at least two.
 
Published On 21 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022

The United States has imposed sanctions on Sudan’s Central Reserve Police, accusing it of using excessive force against peaceful protesters demonstrating against last October’s military coup.

The US Department of the Treasury said in a statement on Monday the Central Reserve Police, a heavily armed division of Sudan’s police force, has been at the forefront of the “violent response” of Sudanese security forces to peaceful protests in Khartoum.

Pointing to a single day in January, it accused the group of firing live ammunition and, along with anti-riot police and regular police, chasing protesters trying to flee, arresting and beating some, and fatally shooting two and injuring others.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/21/update-3-u-s-places-sanctions-on-sudans-central-reserve-police-over-protest-crackdown

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What an irony!  Our neighbor to the north did the same thing and BAM, no sanctions.  Then our sanctimonious country builds a wall around the capitol to protect it from peaceful protests (except when government infiltrators got them to break in to the Capitol) and then throws some in jail with no charges where they continue to languish with no charges being brought.