Five anti-dam activists detained in Wadi Halfa, Sudan
On Tuesday, agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detained five members of the Committee Against the Dal Dam and shut-down the Nile Club in Wadi Halfa in the Northern State.
The NISS agents held the Committee’s Information Secretary, Mohamed Ahmed Bakab, and members Naji Abdo, Intisar Fouad, Mohamed Sharif, and Zahir Mohamed, following a meeting in the Nile Club in Wadi Halfa.
On Tuesday, agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) detained five members of the Committee Against the Dal Dam and shut-down the Nile Club in Wadi Halfa in the Northern State.
The NISS agents held the Committee’s Information Secretary, Mohamed Ahmed Bakab, and members Naji Abdo, Intisar Fouad, Mohamed Sharif, and Zahir Mohamed, following a meeting in the Nile Club in Wadi Halfa.
They ordered the closure of the Nile Club as it has been hosting meetings of opponents of the construction of the Dal and Kajbar dams.
In a press statement on Wednesday, the Committee stressed that “harassment and detentions will not discourage us from resisting the flooding of our lands and mass displacement by the establishment of the dams”.
The Committee hold the authorities responsible for the safety of the detainees, and called for “their immediate release or bringing them to trial in case they violated the law”.
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