Prisoner dies in South Darfur

A man died of what seems to be torture in Nyala prison after he was convicted for drinking alcohol.

The man was convicted in the public order court for consuming alcohol and sentenced to paying a fine, which he was unable to pay, a relative of the man told Radio Dabanga this week. Family members paid the fine the next day and went to get him out of prison. “There we found him dead.”

His body was transferred to one of the Turkish hospitals in the city. An autopsy turned out that his death was most likely caused by a severe rupture of the kidneys because of beatings with a hard tool. He had bruises on his head.

A former detainee said this month that prisoners are being beaten, kicked and tortured with electric cables by members of the security apparatus in so-called detention camps.