others here answer the challenge to the charms some demands of an armed friend. and on demand. language courses. and or you. w. me. this is deja news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes as saddam's ruling generals and protest leaders finalize the makeup of the body that will govern the country for the next 3 years those who have been at the forefront of the protests tell us the price they paid for doing so. and 6 work in nigeria is not explicitly illegal but those who do it and those who look like they do it say they

get abused by police will talk to activists campaigning for their rights. i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're today and in sudan the struggle for democracy continues in april president obama was overthrown off to months of protests demonstrations continued to against the military that deposed him now those on the list have announced an agreement with opposition groups for a 3 year transition to a civilian government but those who have been standing up for change in sudan have paid a high price. for as long as you can remember i met hamdan has been on the front lines of sudan struggle for democracy 1st protesting against the government in 2013 now spending months on the streets of part of the latest. uprising against former

president i'm going to share but have done has paid a high price one night in january on his way home from a demonstration he was followed by security forces. you know some people came from behind me and started beating me with an electric but. they didn't say anything. i was hit directly in my eye. i told the officer that i had had i surgery that i had lost my cornea he said we could kill you never mind your i. have done might never see with his right eye again and the harassment continued when he was taken to a detention center by the security forces there an officer recognized him as a prominent activist that they forcibly stripped me they ripped my shirt and trousers they started saying inappropriate things and threatened to rape me i felt ashamed being in front of so many people and being naked and having all these

things said to you it's been a huge psychological toll. another witness to the cost of the revolution is dr namath. she helps run this field clinic at the heart of the sit in in front of the army headquarters in the days leading up to the removal of ahmed al bashir in april this clinic was at the frontlines of the violence. there were people coming in with all kinds of gunshot wounds head wounds i were leg wins and all of the body there were just randomly shooting people even had sniper when those. doctors themselves were also targeted by al bashir is regime. cannot you know my guess is this video taken on new year's eve shows for doctors being arrested by the military on the street in front of a hospital in hush 2. doctors said that says it's because doctors have historically been at the forefront of all. igniting strikes and protests against the regime. no

matter how many times doctors were attacked they stayed in the hospitals this was very annoying for the on bashir regime that's why they tried everything they could against us and arrested us i took part in demonstrations and matches but i never dared say i was a doctor it was dangerous despite the violence dr who doesn't believe retribution is the way forward for sudan and this is the message i met hamdoon has for those attacking and abusing protesters. despite you torturing me i went out to protest for you too. sometimes i think about revenge. but i rather we have accountability because we protested against illegal practices so we can't turn around and do the same thing.

in latest developments a deal was struck to set up a committee to investigate the targeting of protesters have to now hopes that his sacrifice and that of others won't be in vain. the next story is in nigeria where government crackdown on sex workers has drawn criticism while prostitution is not explicitly legal or illegal police have been known to detain people on suspicion that they are selling 6 women arrested at a nightclub in a budget earlier this month on alleged prostitution say that they aren't prostitutes and some also allege that they were raped by police offices i'll be talking to a women's rights activist but 1st this report. now see some well does not want to be recognized she's one of 70 women recently i arrested at a nightclub in nigeria's capital. they were accused of being sex workers she says simply. this office says sexually assaulted them while they were in custody so

police wonder did they were pushing us into the post some of the we are touching our breasts someone so some of them ever put the audience our vagina is very very wrong they are just busy ab using us is not rights has son abubakar is the official in charge of making such arrests i'm not really aware of the sexual abuse i don't know where you go to information but there were arrested is not only prostitution in their issue it is a crime they were prostitutes and they were neck it i would workers agency the environmental protection board e.p.b. led this rate but he denies knowing anything about the sexual abuse the agency was set up to protect the environment of nigeria's capital but it's now part of a multi agency task force that are arrest people for loitering and causing what

they call news as to society some of their main targets sex workers prostitutes are often treated as criminals although the law does not specifically state that prostitution is a crime the sex workers are arrested extorted and sometimes sexually assaulted by police. itself which is the act of prostituting yourself. illicit sexual activity however bad. yes interviewer and therefore. we must be very circumspect in. proceeding with. bridgeman infringement of the rights of my. sex worker is growing increasingly popular but many nigerians openly condemn it because of the country's conservative culture that's

why violations against the human rights of sex workers are often ignored this is arlin of a new in lagos an area well known to nigeria's for its commercial sex activities every night the clubs here are busy cars are lined up a young women stand on the street corners waiting to sell their bodies for as little as 700 naira or about to your rose many tell us they have no offer option sees they can't find work this is the only way they can survive the economy car cheap in nigeria we meet the regional leaders of the nigerian sex workers as a see shown they don't want their faces to be seen as the affray to be recognized by family member then money must we advocate for the government to stop violence against sex workers they say the government attack on sex work is one side it.

because if you read. what they want to put up with. these activists say that arresting only view women without arresting their male customers is an attack against women's rights in general so why here standing in front of the police trying to talk enough is enough to stop one less thing nigerian women on the streets for simply having their rights to freedom for simply going outside not for simply just in the way they want to while human rights groups to help in the affected we men get justice nancy says she's happy to be finally free from police custody. evelyn is a women's rights activist with the organization hash tag say her name nigeria she joins me now from lagos welcome to africa so this this story of women who

were arrested in an abortion i've club for alleged prostitution and they've gone on to share via council they have terrifying ordeal with police is this an isolated incident or is it more widespread in nigeria which is saying. it is something that happens a lot more often than you actually hear about. that's the point of what i mean where a lot of incidents it's more for arrests so we men especially you know in general we don't get here. equal representation to access to people who can actually help them for what is going on in their women typically do men and women's rights in very curious when something that her all of more especially in the direction this but all people that tension because of the number 2 very huge number of people who . are in more often than. ok so one of the things about prostitution laws in

nigeria it's a bit murky it's not explicitly illegal it's not explicitly legal you're a women's rights activist you're advocating for for protection women's rights police say they're trying to to to to to put law and order on the streets of what point to these things clash which is saved. oh i think it's important because we were trying so hard to let women know you know they can just the way they want to dress and we still have access to the same rights that every other person has access to we can go out whenever they want go out and go out wherever they want to go out and do should be able to go out and have the freedom to do and see and dress as they want to. so this is definitely a very huge problem because as a women's rights activists again we're fighting with a society of fighting with men and just humanity would buy into this idea of the

way she just being a certain way and acting a certain way and that's one problem but if we have to stop fighting spoken with the government you know it's a 20 different conversation because it's now it's coming into new york where it could be a situation where women have a curfew although men have the sense in transport so it's beyond just day to day interactions with just citizens but it's more a note of men there where women's rights activists are trying to fight for the freedom of women and they live in. the key quote a caucus. clamping down on that and you know trying to constrain women and saying no don't do this don't do that and it is a huge problem definitely the bennett manoa women's rights act so that's what the organization has to say had name coming to us from lagos thank you. and that is it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page we need you now with pictures of the streets of saddam till next high.

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