Darfur Ponzi victims’ spokesman and NGO staffer arrested

Security authorities in Darfur yesterday arrested Mr. Adam Hamid, spokesman of the victims of the Mawasir Market scam. He was arrested in El Fasher and transferred to detention facilities of the security service in the city.Elsewhere, security authorities arrested Abdeljalil Abakr Mohamed from the headquarters of his organization ACTED, a French organization working in the field of health and environmental sanitation in Zalingei on Tuesday morning. He was taken to the offices of the security in the city. He has not been charged. Neither lawyers nor his family have yet visited him.

The detainee Abdeljalil is one of leaders of the Hamadiya Displaced Camp. Sources said he suffers from diabetes. Displaced people in Hamadiya Camp described his arrest as an extension of the policy of intimidation and silencing of displaced persons.