Yasmine Bashir News Today

Sudan’s ruling junta released 14 detainees from various prisons and detention centres in Sudan on Monday, the first day of Eid El Fitr, the three-day Muslim festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum, was broken-up by government forces on Saturday evening, lawyers from Sudan report. The sit-in was one of six that were organised by Emergency Lawyers at prisons in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan.

How portrait photography can help your mental health May 19, 2021 Peter Dench meets John Mannell, whose impromptu daily portrait photography has proved to be a powerful creative and emotional outlet during challenging times On 1 January 2017, just after midnight, a slightly merry John Mannell raised his Olympus camera to his eye and took a portrait of his friend Olly and a woman they’d just met (below). An innocuous act repeated by millions across the country celebrating new year. For John...