‘Detainees moved to death row in Sudan’: JEM
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) reports that the Deputy Director of Kober Prison in Khartoum, Brigadier Saeed Dahia, has moved two JEM members, El Toom Tutu Hamad and Mahjoub Ezz El Arab, to the Khamsa Dagaayig execution cell in the same prison. The official spokesman of the movement, Jibril Adam Bilal, told Radio Dabanga that the reason behind their transfer is their objection to the addition of two other prisoners to their cell, “which measures just 2m by 2m and already houses six”. Bilal stressed that his movement considers the safety of the JEM prisoners to be the responsibility of the ruling National Congress Party. He holds Brigadier Saeed Dahia, Deputy Director of Kober Prison, personally responsible for the safety of Hamad and Ezz El Arab. Bilal also appealed to human rights organisations “to halt cases of horrible torture and the worsening health and security situation experienced by the JEM detainees and all political prisoners, and to demand their release”. As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, Sudanese courts sentenced about 70 JEM members to death after an attack they mounted on Omdurman in May 2008. The JEM detainees began a hunger strike on 12 August, protesting what they described as “cruel treatment” by prison warders. The former head of JEM intelligence, Abdel Aziz Usher, and others had been to the death row solitary confinement block. None of the condemned rebels has been executed, but Khartoum has refused to free them within the framework of a goodwill agreement providing for exchange prisoners under the auspices of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. Only a few were released under pressure from the mediation and Qatari government which facilitated the talks. File photo Related: ‘JEM detainees being tortured in Sudan’s Kober prison’: relatives (5 September 2013) ‘Sudan’s Director of Prisons talks tough to hunger strikers’: JEM (1 September 2013) Solidarity for JEM hunger strikers in Sudanese prisons (29 August 2013) JEM detainees on hunger strike in Sudanese prison (15 August 2013)
The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) reports that the Deputy Director of Kober Prison in Khartoum, Brigadier Saeed Dahia, has moved two JEM members, El Toom Tutu Hamad and Mahjoub Ezz El Arab, to the Khamsa Dagaayig execution cell in the same prison.
The official spokesman of the movement, Jibril Adam Bilal, told Radio Dabanga that the reason behind their transfer is their objection to the addition of two other prisoners to their cell, “which measures just 2m by 2m and already houses six”.
Bilal stressed that his movement considers the safety of the JEM prisoners to be the responsibility of the ruling National Congress Party. He holds Brigadier Saeed Dahia, Deputy Director of Kober Prison, personally responsible for the safety of Hamad and Ezz El Arab.
Bilal also appealed to human rights organisations “to halt cases of horrible torture and the worsening health and security situation experienced by the JEM detainees and all political prisoners, and to demand their release”.
As previously reported by Radio Dabanga, Sudanese courts sentenced about 70 JEM members to death after an attack they mounted on Omdurman in May 2008.
The JEM detainees began a hunger strike on 12 August, protesting what they described as “cruel treatment” by prison warders. The former head of JEM intelligence, Abdel Aziz Usher, and others had been to the death row solitary confinement block.
None of the condemned rebels has been executed, but Khartoum has refused to free them within the framework of a goodwill agreement providing for exchange prisoners under the auspices of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur. Only a few were released under pressure from the mediation and Qatari government which facilitated the talks.
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Related:
‘JEM detainees being tortured in Sudan’s Kober prison’: relatives (5 September 2013)
‘Sudan’s Director of Prisons talks tough to hunger strikers’: JEM (1 September 2013)
Solidarity for JEM hunger strikers in Sudanese prisons (29 August 2013)
JEM detainees on hunger strike in Sudanese prison (15 August 2013)
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