Sudanese returning from South Sudan detained

Dozens of Sudanese nationals, who were residing in South Sudan and fled the armed conflicts there, have been arrested in Jauda, White Nile. The citizens were detained by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) without being charged, Sudan Rights reported in a blog on Sunday. Mohamed Hisham Ishag (26), a graduate from the Technology and Community Development College in Nyala, South Darfur, was arrested by NISS forces on Friday after he crossed the South Sudan-Sudan border, together with a group of Sudanese citizens. Ishag fled from the fighting in Malakal, the capital of Upper Nile State, where he had found work in a mobile phone shop. Ishag and his fellow travellers, most of them traders, were tortured. All Ishag’s documents were taken from him. He was released the next day, but other returnees are still detained by the NISS in Jauda, without any charges filed against them.  Sudan Rights demands from the Sudanese authorities to immediately release all the NISS detainees, or charge them and bring them to justice.  File photo