Sudanese security forces stormed hospitals and fired tear gas during demonstrations across the country on Wednesday, as thousands of people took to the streets on the anniversary of previous popular uprisings. Tear gas fired at crowds and inside hospitals caused some protesters to suffer from suffocation, according to witnesses and the independent Central Committee of Sudan Doctors. Security forces have brutally suppressed pro-democracy protests since Sudan’s military general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led a coup against former Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s government on 25 October. “The forces …