Sudan security arrests activist Mohamed Salah again
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have arrested Mohamed Salah Mohamed, a 24 year-old Sudanese activist and former spokesman for the Democratic Front, inside Khartoum airport on Thursday.Mohamed’s family is extremely concerned about his well-being, not only because the NISS is denying his arrest, but also because Mohamed is suffering from a kidney disease. According to his parents, he had to be treated at the hospital many times after he was tortured during his detention in 2012. The security began searching for Mohamed after the murder of Ali Abakar Musa Idris on 11 March, a Darfuri student who was shot during a peaceful protest at the University of Khartoum campus. Mohamed, together with hundreds of activists and students, spent the night at the morgue, and attended the funeral and memorial event. During the memorial event, Mohamed gave a speech, where he named and shamed the NISS personnel who were directly involved in Idris’ murder. Since that event, their family home in Khartoum South has been closely under surveillance. “At least 10 armed security agents were spending the night in front of our house,” his mother Zainab Badreldin and his father Salah Mohamed explained. “The killing, torture, and ill-treatment of Sudanese activists make us, his family, extremely worried. The denial of Mohamed’s detention demonstrates the fact that this criminal entity operates completely above the law”, the family wrote in a public statement. They published a page on the Kashkouli website about their son, calling upon the NISS to “immediately release Mohamed Salah and all political prisoners currently in detention”. His mother writes at the website that on around midnight on 15 March Mohamed’s younger brother, Badreldin Salah, was kidnapped by plain-clothed NISS agents a few meters from his family’s home. He was taken to a dark empty yard in El Shajara neighbourhood in southern Khartoum, where he was assaulted and tortured. His eyeglasses were broken from the severe beating to his face and head, and his mobile phone was stolen. He was told that “this is just a message” and that he and his brother “should watch out for the consequences of their actions”. Photo: Mohamed with his mother on the day he was released in 2012 (kashkouli.wordpress.com) Related: ‘More than 15 Darfuri students and human rights activists detained’: Darfur Bar (21 March 2014) ‘Limited riots at university’: Khartoum police (11 March 2014) One dies as troops fire on Darfuri students in Khartoum (11 March 2014)
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have arrested Mohamed Salah Mohamed, a 24 year-old Sudanese activist and former spokesman for the Democratic Front, inside Khartoum airport on Thursday.
Mohamed’s family is extremely concerned about his well-being, not only because the NISS is denying his arrest, but also because Mohamed is suffering from a kidney disease. According to his parents, he had to be treated at the hospital many times after he was tortured during his detention in 2012.
The security began searching for Mohamed after the murder of Ali Abakar Musa Idris on 11 March, a Darfuri student who was shot during a peaceful protest at the University of Khartoum campus. Mohamed, together with hundreds of activists and students, spent the night at the morgue, and attended the funeral and memorial event. During the memorial event, Mohamed gave a speech, where he named and shamed the NISS personnel who were directly involved in Idris’ murder.
Since that event, their family home in Khartoum South has been closely under surveillance. “At least 10 armed security agents were spending the night in front of our house,” his mother Zainab Badreldin and his father Salah Mohamed explained.
“The killing, torture, and ill-treatment of Sudanese activists make us, his family, extremely worried. The denial of Mohamed’s detention demonstrates the fact that this criminal entity operates completely above the law”, the family wrote in a public statement. They published a page on the Kashkouli website about their son, calling upon the NISS to “immediately release Mohamed Salah and all political prisoners currently in detention”.
His mother writes at the website that on around midnight on 15 March Mohamed’s younger brother, Badreldin Salah, was kidnapped by plain-clothed NISS agents a few meters from his family’s home. He was taken to a dark empty yard in El Shajara neighbourhood in southern Khartoum, where he was assaulted and tortured. His eyeglasses were broken from the severe beating to his face and head, and his mobile phone was stolen. He was told that “this is just a message” and that he and his brother “should watch out for the consequences of their actions”.
Photo: Mohamed with his mother on the day he was released in 2012 (kashkouli.wordpress.com)
Related:
‘More than 15 Darfuri students and human rights activists detained’: Darfur Bar (21 March 2014)
‘Limited riots at university’: Khartoum police (11 March 2014)
One dies as troops fire on Darfuri students in Khartoum (11 March 2014)
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