DBA: ’10+ lawyers targeted and killed in South Darfur’

The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) reports that more than 10 lawyers and human rights defenders have been killed in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, within a month and a half. ‘Militant tribesmen are deliberately targeting and storming homes of lawyers and human rights defenders, they say.

The DBA is deeply concerned about the growing phenomenon of militias killing, robbing, and intimidating lawyers and human rights defenders in Nyala.

Human rights defender Tamid El Rayan, a lawyer in Nyala, was killed last week inside his home in the El Wahda neighbourhood while resisting an armed group that stormed his house.

Another young man, Ali El Hadi, was killed by an armed group in the El Wadi neighbourhood in east Nyala. Mohamed Rahama was wounded.

Many others faced similar threats, the DBA said.