TEMPO.CO, Khartoum - Hundreds of Sudanese Islamists staged a demonstration in the capital, Khartoum, denouncing the recent death sentence against Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi.
Protesters — mostly members of Sudan's Muslim Brotherhood branch — chanted against Egypt's current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi who led Morsi's ouster. Morsi belongs to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. He was sentenced to death earlier this week on charges relating to a 2011 prison break.
"Down with the el-Sissi government," protesters chanted as they marched from Khartoum's Grand Mosque toward a district housing the United Nations office. They waved pictures of Morsi and the yellow four-finger sign — symbol of the Rabaa el-Adawiya protest camp where Egyptian police killed hundreds of Morsi supporters in 2013.
Riot police cordoned off roads leading to the U.N. office and the protesters dispersed peacefully.
AP