"Are you enjoying the Formula 1, Al Bashir?" Picture by Karin Goodwin. This week, around 30 members of Glasgow’s Sudanese community, along with their supporters, held up banners in the middle of Glasgow’s busy city centre on Wednesday as part of the protest. Slogans called on president Omar Al-Bashir to leave. Al Bashir has been in power since he took part in a military coup in 1989, and is accused of holding corrupt elections.
A banner asked: “are you enjoying the Formula1 Al Bashir?” in reference to the President’s decision to attend the international car racing event in Dubai earlier this week rather than deal with the political unrest in Sudan.
Protestors involved in the “emergency demonstration” claimed it was held “in solidarity with the people of Sudan who are on strike and suffering from a corrupt government that has just cut subsidies for medicine.” The protestors called on Scots to stand with them and “spread the word”.
