Turabi party: Sudan is a police state in need of change

The Sudanese "People's National Congress party" which is led by Hassan al-Turabi has strongly criticized the Sudanese government and described it is a "police state," while al-Turabi himself also strongly criticized the authorities and stressed that the Sudanese people are determinant to "change it."

In his meting with a crowd of his supporters in Khartoum upon he returned back from al-Fasher on Sunday, the chairman of the Sudanese opposition Islamic Sudanese People's National Congress party Hassan al-Turabi said that the authorities had annoyed his supporters who came to receive him in the west part of the country and did not permit them to enter the city only by the end of night and that these authorities prevented him from holding a seminar.A matter which forced him to talks to his supporters after al-"Taraweh" prayers.

Al-Turabi described conditions in west Sudan as " deteriorated and that the citizens have become depressed of the government and have determined to change yet after the spread of armed blackmailing and the suspension of education because of the inability of the government to pay the teachers their wages and firing state employees who do not support the ruling party."

He explained that just recently six Police men were killed and six lorries coming from Libya by the land were deprived of their load.