this is news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes don's ruling generals have pretty finalized 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 told to activists campaigning for their rights. i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa. in sudan the struggle for democracy continues in april president omar al bashir was overthrown after months of protests demonstrations continued against the military that deposed him now those army

rulers 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 a spart of the latest uprising against former president ahmed and bashir. 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. i was hit directly in my. eye told the officer that i'd had eye surgery that i'd lost my cornea he said we could. never mind iraq. 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 has. 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 nam a clue that 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 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 that were just randomly shooting people even had sniper

when most. doctors themselves were also targeted by other shooters regime. i don't know why because this video taken on new year's eve shows 4 doctors being arrested by the military on the street in front of a hospital in what to. call the doctor said that he 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 their own 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 did say i was a doctor it was dangerous. despite the violence dr drew 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. do 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 prosecution 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 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. and are did they were pushing us into the sort of there we are watching our breasts i don't want some of them ever put the audience so it's very very wrong and they are just busy ab using is not right. hassen card is the official in charge of making such arrests i'm not really aware of the sexual abuse i don't know where you got your information but there were arrested is not only prostitution work in their issue it is a crime they were prostitutes and they were nec it backers agency the

environmental protection board. 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 the multi 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 forces to show itself which is the act of prostituting yourself. illicit sexual activity however bad. yet in my view and

therefore we must be very circumspect in. proceeding with. bridgeman infringement of the rights of magick. 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 venue in lagos an area well known to nigerians for its commercial sex activities every night the clubs here are busy cars are lined up a young women stand on the streets corners waiting to sell their bodies for as little as 700 naira or about 2 years many tell us they have no other 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 to say shown they don't want their faces to be seen as the affray to be recognized by family member they are not only mostly advocates 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 too much because they don't really know. these activists say that arresting only 3 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 not for

simply just in the way they want while human rights groups to help in the affected women 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 nigeria she joins me now from lagos welcome to africa so this the story of the 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 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 incidences where. we men especially you know in general we don't get here

. equal representation to access to people who can actually help them for. women typically do men and we didn't. win something to her although more especially in the direction this people's 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 illegal and you're a women's rights activist you're advocating for full protection of 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 would you safe. 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 they 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 woman's rights activists in we're fighting with a society are fighting with men and just humanity will buy into this idea of what women should be just seeing a certain way and acting a certain way and that's one but if we have to start fights unspoken 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 sex in transport so it's beyond just their actions 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 cup it's happening right now clamping down on that 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 eban it manoa women's rights activists with 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 leave you now with pictures of the streets of sudan makes tie.

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