Communists freed

NAIROBI

Meanwhile, AFP reported that members of a breakaway faction of the outlawed Sudanese Communist Party who were arrested as they held a press conference on Monday were freed later the same day following the intervention of government officials Among those detained was Warraq Sidahmed, leader of the Modern Democratic Forces Movement (Haq), a splinter faction of the Communist Party, who was making his first public appearance after 10 years in hiding. Haq has now renamed itself the Cultural Enlightenment Society, apparently to avoid being dubbed a political party, and called the press conference under this new name.

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