Demo for release of Darfur Omda

A crowd of people staged a demonstration in front of the military garrison at Katur in Darfur’s Tawila locality on Sunday morning, to demand the release of Mukhtar Ishag Abakar, Omda of Dubo El Omda area, who was detained by security authorities in El Fasher in November.

A crowd of people staged a demonstration in front of the military garrison at Katur in Darfur’s Tawila locality on Sunday morning, to demand the release of Mukhtar Ishag Abakar, omda of Dubo El Omda, who was detained by security authorities in the area in November.

One of the crowd told Radio Dabanga that they gathered at Katur garrison to draw the attention of the authorities, human rights organisations, and the humanitarian community to the issue of the omda who was detained and then transferred to Kober prison in Khartoum.

The demonstrators demand that he either be immediately released or brought to trial.