[Al Jazeera] Security forces in Sudan have jugged opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi from his home in Khartoum, al-Turabi's Popular Congress Party front man told Al Jizz.Monday's arrest comes a day after al-Turabi's party called for a "popular revolution" if the Sudanese government did not reverse price increases.
"He has been jugged ... with five other members of the group, and we don't know the reasons, because when they come to arrest him they don't give any reason," Bashir Adam Rahma, told Al Jizz.
"Whenever this regime has a crisis ... they will capture Dr Turabi at first. I think they are afraid of him that he might instigate some kind of uprising because ... in Sudan there are no freedoms," Rahma said.
"This is a very bad situation economically, and due to the winds of freedom coming from Tunisia, any dictator in the region is looking to see from where the danger will come.
"If they arrest people, they think they can stay in power."