what's coming up on brooklyn to show you more to movement. to get these things on the mantle that you don't want to take a look over meaning to for the taking of course. i'm going to sleep every weekend here d.w. . this is deja news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes saddam's ruling generals and pretty soon you just 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 so it could nigeria's 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.

and christine one they'll welcome to deja 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 it's a done have paid a high price. for as long as he can remember i met hamdan has been on the front lines of sudan struggle for democracy for his protesting against the government in 2013 now spending months on the streets a spart of the latest uprising against former president ahmed and bashir but how did his 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 all. they did not say anything. i was hit directly in my eye. i told the officer that i had had eye surgery hand and that i had lost my cornea he said we could kill you never mind your i lay an egg. hamdan 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. 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 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 armidale bashir in april this clinic was at the front lines of the violence. there were people coming in with all kinds of gunshot wounds head wounds i were leg wounds and all of the body there were just randomly shooting people even had sniper when most. doctors themselves were also targeted by al bashir is regime. i don't i guess in this video taken on new year's eve shows for doctors being arrested by the military on the street in front of a hospital and hard to. die doctors says it's because doctors have historically been at the forefront of organizing 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 the shia regime that's why they tried everything they

could against us and arrested us i took part in demonstrations in matches but i never did say i was a doctor it was dangerous despite the violence doctor who doesn't believe retribution is the way forward for sudan and this is the message i met him doing house 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 how do now hopes that his sacrifice and that of others won't be in vain. 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 arrested at a nightclub in nigeria's capital. they were accused of being sex workers she says some police officers sexually assaulted them while they were in custody so police wonder did they were pushing. some of their way out but you know our breasts don't want some of their every. vagina is very very wrong here just busy ab using

those is not right. hassen abubakar is the official in charge of making such arrests i'm normally aware of the sexual abuse i don't know where you go to information but there were arrested is not only prostitution work in their issue it is a crime they were prostitutes and they were neck it. is agency the environmental protection board. led this raid 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 the mostly agency task force that are arrest people for loitering and causing what they call news events 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 prostitution itself which is the act of prostituting yourself illicit activity however bad. yes in my view and therefore. we must be very circumspect in. proceeding with. abridgement drew infringement of the rights of my. sex work 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 2 year rows many tell us they have no offer option sees they can't find work this is the only way the car survives 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 they are not only must we advocate for the government to stop violence against sex workers they say the government's attack on sex work is one sided. because if you read. what they want to put up with too much because they don't really love.

these activists say that arrest scene only view women without arresting their male customers is an attack against women's rights in general so what 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 helping the affected we men get justice nancy says she's happy to be finally free from police custody. and there is a women's rights activist with the organization hash tag say her name by gerry she joins me now from lagos welcome to africa service the story of women who were arrested in an abortion i'd club for alleged prostitution and they've gone on to share the accounts of their 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 we actually hear about. that's the point of what you're doing where a lot of incidences where you know 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 it's going. to be to do this incident men and women's rights in very curious when something that all the more busy especially in the direction this all with attention because of the number 2 very huge number of people who don't have any more often than here. 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 full protection women's rights

police say they're trying 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 the men 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 say 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 the society of fighting with men and just humanity by it's a game where men should be just seen a certain way and acting a certain way and that's one but if we have to stop fighting spoken with the government that we're going to 20 different conversation because it's now it's

coming into new york where it could be a situation where women have a curfew we're going to have a 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 their men and they live in. the week with a cup nice. clamping down on that and you know trying to constrain women and saying no we don't do this don't do that and it is a huge problem definitely a ban it more on the law women's rights activists with the organization has tagged say had name coming to us from lagos thank you. and that is it for now from news africa you can catch all stories on our website and facebook page we leave you now with pictures off the streets of saddam till next 5 by 5.

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