Victim tells of torture in Sudan’s ‘ghost houses’

A Sudanese anti-torture group in a statement called for joining hands to end the crime of torture and apologizing to all the victims of torture and forming a committee to reveal the truth. The group gave an example of the torture that is being carried out inside Sudanese ghost houses using the story of the torture of the engineer Ibrahim Abakr, who was arrested and tortured in the well-known office of the security bureau in the eastern part of Nyala during the previous May. He was tortured for having participated in peaceful protests. The engineer Ibrahim Abakr said that the torture which he received was terrible and involved various methods included beating, being whipped, electrocuted, put under physical and psychological pressure and other methods. He also said that the worst method of torture was being ordered to walk barefooted on broken glass, saying that when he refused, he was electrocuted and fell on the broken glass and is still carrying the scars of the wounds from the frightening experience.