The Islamic Movement in Sudan mourns its Secretary General

The Islamic Movement in Sudan announced – Friday – the death of its Secretary General Al-Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan, after he was transferred from prison to a hospital in the capital, Khartoum. Due to the deterioration of his health.

The movement said in a brief statement, “We belong to God and to Him we shall return, in the protection of God, the Secretary General of the Sudanese Islamic Movement, Sheikh Al-Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan,” and made it clear that it would publish more details about the funeral and funeral prayer.

Anadolu Agency quoted a source close to the family as saying that the deceased was transferred from his prison cell in Kober Central Prison in the capital to the police hospital in Khartoum, due to his deteriorating health condition, but he died there.

Zubair was born in 1955 and graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Social Studies at the University of Khartoum in 1980.

Al-Zubair held the position of Secretary of the Islamic Movement from 2012 to 2018, and his mandate was renewed for the period 2019-2023.

On July 24, 2019, the Sudanese authorities arrested him and a number of leaders of the Islamic movement in the country, and he remained imprisoned in Kober prison, among the leaders of the former regime, on charges of plotting the coup of the “salvation regime” that brought ousted President Omar al-Bashir to power in 1989.