Graduates arrested, tortured in El Fasher, North Darfur

Four university graduates from East Jebel Marra were arrested by security forces in North Darfur’s capital of El Fasher on Friday. “Osman Hamid Sharif and Eisa Adam Eisa, both graduates of El Fasher University, and El Tayeb Suleiman Idris and Mohamed Ahmed Adam, graduates of the Omdurman Islamic University were arrested by security forces on Friday”, a relative of one of the detainees told Radio Dabanga.“All four are originally from East Jebel Marra. They seem to have been tortured. At least one of them was found, seriously wounded.” “People returning from their dawn prayers at the mosque on Sunday, found Sharif lying on the ground at El Mawashi street in El Radeef district. He was unconscious, and bleeding from his nose and ears. He was transferred to a hospital in El Fasher,” the source said. The relative holds the Sudanese security services and the authorities responsible for the “fate and lives of the three others.” He urged human rights organisations to intervene, and rescue the lives of Eisa, Idris, and Adam. File photo: Abandoned police post in Darfur (archive Radio Dabanga)