Detentions in Darfur for unknown reasons

The detention by the Sudanese security service of two men in Sirba locality, West Darfur, has continued for seven days for unknown reasons. In Fanga, two men were apprehended during a police search.

A local camps coordinator told Radio Dabanga that the arrest of Abdallah Mohamed Yahya and Adam Ibrahim Mohamed came on 26 February. The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) agents took them from the town of Sirba to prison, without giving reasons for the arrest.

“The police blocked their families ones from visiting them, which constitutes a violation of their rights,” the coordinator said. He demanded the reasons for their arrest to become known or their immediate release.

Arrests

Military intelligence members arrested two men in Rofota, 12 kilometers west of Fanga, in eastern Jebel Marra on Friday, and took them to the Rofota military garrison.

A relative of the detained men told this station that the intelligence agents, stationed in Rofota, stopped a group of seven people, including five women, on their way to Vanaga after shopping. They searched all goods their donkeys were carrying.

Both Abdelrazek Yousif Hamid (35 years), and Tahir Mohamed Ibrahim (50) were arrested and taken to the military garrison.

The relative said he is concerned about them being subjected to ill-treatment.