The situation is getting very bad -- a lot of people dying. And they are torturing so many people," one Sudanese demonstrator told CNN in April. "So, we are here to protest that and to ask the international community to stand with the Sudanese people."

After months of protests, Bashir was arrested in Apriland removed from power in a military coup announced by Sudanese defense minister, Awad Mohamed Ahmed Ibn Auf.

A military council would take control to oversee a transition of power, he said.