Darfuri student ‘electrocuted’ in Omdurman

A Darfuri student at the Islamic University of Omdurman has been ‘electrocuted’, however his body reportedly bears signs of torture.

Adam Mousa of the Darfur Students Association told Radio Dabanga that student Adam Yahya Haroun, from Beleil in South Darfur, left the University’s boarding hostel in Omdurman’s El Fitihab district at about 6 pm on Sunday evening.

“He went to the University to study, but did not return,” he said. “At 8.30 pm on Monday a university guard phoned us and said that Adam had suffered an electric shock, and died on the way to the Military Hospital in Omdurman.”

Mousa said that the death certificate issued by the hospital administration stated that there were signs of torture on Haroun’s legs and head.

“However, security officers confiscated the certificate,” he said. “Other officers took Haroun’s body to the Omdurman Teaching Hospital nearby, where they obtained another medical report stating that he died of electrocution.”

The Darfur Students Association demanded another autopsy, and appealed to human rights organisations and the Darfur Bar Association to intervene and “uncover the truth”. They also urge “political parties and civil society organisations in Sudan to protect the Darfuri students from the systematic targeting of them by the security apparatus”.