This footage was filmed and produced 23 December 2021.

Sudanese women protest in Khartoum, Amarat area in front of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights office, and in Omdurman area as well after reports of rape of women and girls during the last protests this week near the Republican Palace,reports of serious human rights violations, including the use of rape and gang rape of women and girls, to disperse protesters who had attempted to hold a sit-in close to the Republican Palace on 19 December 2021.

Translation of the interview with Mervat Elneil, a political leader in the opposition group Forces of Freedom and Change:
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– Today’s demonstrations came as anger action against the physical violations and rape that took place against Sudanese women by soldiers on 19 December, and which is taking place every day against Sudanese people who are looking to achieve their goals in a peaceful way. The government that carried out the military coup met these peaceful demonstrations with many With physical violence and rape of a number of women and girls who participated in the December 19 demonstration in front of the presidential palace.
This criminal behavior is considered a major violation of human and women’s rights, and he doubts the inability of the current government to maintain the security and safety of the demonstrators, and the continuity of this military government means a clear threat to the human rights situation in Sudan. Therefore, we call today for those who committed rape to be held accountable.
The rape of girls and women was carried out on December 19, when it was carried out by militias affiliated with the ruling military council, and it took place after the sit-in was dispersed by the demonstrators in front of the presidential palace. For the female demonstrators, after the sit-in was dispersed in front of the army command on June 3, 2019, and it happened in the Darfur region by the same forces.

Translation of the interview with Noon Kashkoush, a lawyer and human rights activist:
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– We, as lawyers, are accustomed to confronting such violations and physical violence against women and girls throughout the period of struggle against the precedent that was led by Omar al-Bashir and in the current government led by the Military Council.
We were shocked by the crime that took place during the dispersal of the sit-in in front of the Republican Palace on December 19, and our shock was the recurrence of the crime of rape, as happened in 2019 after the sit-in was disbanded in front of the Army General Command, and has happened in the Darfur region in the past. This confirms the continued use of the same method in suppressing peaceful demonstrations and protests by the military.
We face many problems represented in the weakness of laws against the perpetrators of the crime of rape and even in the prosecution of military personnel in the government forces and the lifting of their immunity for trial. This prompts us to demand once again the reorganization of the police and the speed of trials and the establishment of a special court to deal with these crimes and to find a fair and just judiciary.
We, as lawyers, and as women suffer a lot from the lack of legalization of the violence against women law, and now it has become an urgent necessity, as well as implementing the decisions to protect women in the Darfur region.
We work as a group of lawyers to provide legal support, psychological and medical support to raped women and young people as well as protect girls from sexual harassment and now we have started to open criminal reports for a number of cases that were raped on December 19.

Translation of the interview with Hadia Hassaballah, a university professor and women's rights activist:
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– The current regime has been using the method of rape as a method of suppressing women and limiting their participation in the demonstrations and also limiting the power of the demonstrations because women represented the majority in the demonstrations throughout the past period and since the beginning of the revolution in Sudan and in proportion to the women’s participation in the revolution.
We are confident that our position that we have stood today is not for us as women but for the sake of all the Sudanese people, because we have experienced over the past thirty years of military rule that the oppression of women and the violation of their rights is a violation of the right to health, education and human rights in a democracy and fair governance.
Our demonstration today makes us review all the violations committed by the current and previous regime against women in Sudan, especially in the Darfur region in 2014, where women were raped in an entire village called Thabit by the military.
Today we are here to say that the violations committed against women are violations of the entire Sudanese revolution.