Sudan security arrests two after human rights workshop: sources
Elements of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have reportedly arrested two men “directly after their participation in a human rights workshop in Khartoum on Wednesday,” sources affirm.The Darfuri men Mohamed Yahiya Ibrahim Muhajir and Mohamed Dawood Suleiman Abbakar were taken to an unknown location.The activist Abbakar has been previously arrested in 2009, when sources claim he was “physically and psychologically tortured.”Activists, civil society, and human rights defenders say the arrest of the two men is “a continuation of the process of systematic racial discrimination of the Khartoum regime and arbitrary arrests by the NISS of activists and human rights advocates.”They are calling on human rights bodies and international organisations to intervene and ensure the release of the two men and stop “the racial targeting of Darfuris, especially of activists.”File photo: Khartoum
Elements of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have reportedly arrested two men “directly after their participation in a human rights workshop in Khartoum on Wednesday,” sources affirm.
The Darfuri men Mohamed Yahiya Ibrahim Muhajir and Mohamed Dawood Suleiman Abbakar were taken to an unknown location.
The activist Abbakar has been previously arrested in 2009, when sources claim he was “physically and psychologically tortured.”
Activists, civil society, and human rights defenders say the arrest of the two men is “a continuation of the process of systematic racial discrimination of the Khartoum regime and arbitrary arrests by the NISS of activists and human rights advocates.”
They are calling on human rights bodies and international organisations to intervene and ensure the release of the two men and stop “the racial targeting of Darfuris, especially of activists.”
File photo: Khartoum
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