KAMPALA 17 Apr (ANA) - We've been reporting that Uganda would consider an asylum application from the former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

 

Uganda's state minister for foreign affairs, Henry Okello Oryem, has said that his country  would not be apologetic  for considering an application for asylum by Sudan's former leader Omar alBashir," he said.

 

The Reuters news agency has some more details about Omar al-Bashir's reported imprisonment in Sudan's capital, Khartoum.

 

It quotes a source at Kobar maximum security prison as saying that Sudan's former president is being held under tight security in solitary confinement.

 

The ousted leader had been held under house arrest with a heavy guard since he was overthrown last week, Reuters quotes family sources as saying.

 

Mr al-Bashir has been transferred to prison after being arrested on Tuesday night, a BBC reporter in Khartoum has been told after talking to family sources.

 

His whereabouts have been a mystery since he was ousted in a military coup last week.

 

The leaders of the Transitional Military Council have said he was in custody but he has not been seen in public since he was overthrown.

 

Channel 4 journalist Yousra Elbagir, who has been following the story of protests in Sudan very closely, has tweeted that eyewitnesses have seen the former president in a maximum security prison.

 

Reuters news agency is quoting two family sources saying that he has been transferred to prison.

 

Ms Elbagir says that the prison, Kober, is "where many dissidents were detained and executed by his regime".(ANA)

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