What a video of a male lecturer assaulting his students says about the state of womens rights in the country.
Protesters are against an increase in the price of bread following the removal of government subsidies
Security forces have been accused of brute force, with dozens of protestors injured and reports of more than 200 detained. One student in West Darfur, Al-Zubair Ibrahim, was even killed.
Despite all of this, one incident has inflamed the popular imagination in Sudan, dominating conversations between family and friends. Videos have circulated of Gasim Bedri - the prominent president of the first all-women university, Al-Ahfad - physically assaulting protesting female students on his campus on 10 January. One particularly shocking video shows the university head walking in front of the demonstrating girls, then suddenly diving into the crowd, grabbing one by her headscarf and repeatedly striking her on the head.
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أول حاجة مظاهراتكم حدها الجامعة ما بتقدروا تمدوا راسكم برة ثانيا والمهم بابا قاسم قايم بدور الامنجية باكمل وجه يعني زي مغصتكم مافي يشيل الرسوم باليد اليمين ويضربكم باليد الشمال