KHARTOUM: Sudanese authorities liberated a former member of the ruling Sovereign Council on Wednesday, a lawyer said, making him the second significant civilian figure freed in two days.

“Mohamed al-Fekki has been released,” defence attorney Azhari al-Haj said, more than two months after the lawmaker was arrested on February 13.

On Tuesday, authorities freed Khaled Youssef, a former minister and vocal opponent of army head Abdel Fattah al-Military Burhan’s October 25th, 2017 coup.

The military’s takeover undermined a fragile transition to a civilian government that had been formed following the departure from power of longtime tyrant Omar al-Bashir in 2019.

Fekki’s imprisonment was his second since the coup last year.

He was a member of the civilian-military ruling council and the leader of a commission tasked with reclaiming properties stolen by Bashir’s dictatorship before the coup.

Authorities have accused the committee of misappropriating money that it had seized, but the committee’s members have continuously rejected these charges.

Wagdi Saleh, a spokesperson for the Forces for Freedom and Change, the largest civilian political bloc that was marginalised following the October coup, remains in detention.

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