Sudan: Sharp Comments On Social Media About First Images of Al Bashir

Khartoum — The images of the ousted president Omar Al Bashir in which he is led by a crowd of guards from Kober Prison in Khartoum North to the office of the Attorney General last weekend sparked sharp comments on social media. Is corruption really all he should be charged with?

Commentators on social media described the images of Al Bashir as "a poor play" by the court and the TMC and claimed it was meant to distract the people from the current situation and the massacre at the Khartoum sit-in on June 3. They also claim that the TMC is showing Al Bashir in this way to suggest that the regime is in the process of eliminating corruption.

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