Sudanese protester Walid Abdelrahim was shot dead last month in Khartoum.
A campaign was launched in response to a brutal raid on a weeks-long sit-in in the capital on June 3 that left dozens of demonstrators dead and hundreds wounded.
The portrait is part of a campaign launched by Sudanese artist Assil Diab to draw murals and graffiti to commemorate demonstrators killed in the months-old protest movement that has rocked the northeast African country.
These murals are specifically drawn on the walls of protesters’ own homes or in their neighborhoods. Graffiti makes martyrs come alive and reminds people of them even if the people themselves did or did not support the revolution.
For years such artwork remained underground amid censorship imposed by heavy-handed security agents of the former Bashir regime, who considered it anti-establishment or pure vandalism.
But artists say everything changed since the protests erupted, with dozens of murals flourishing across Khartoum’s walls since the initial weeks of the uprising.
