Displaced ‘arrested, whipped, tortured’ in South Darfur

18/11/2014 21:04

Security authorities arrested eight displaced people in the area of Saboun El Fagur, east of Kass locality in South Darfur on Sunday. According to the women’s coordinator of the Kass camps, the detainees include Mohammed Ishaq Bosh, Siyam Gibril, Ahmed Abu El Lulu, and Siyam Bahruldin and four others whose names have not been verified. “They were whipped and tortured, and accused of belonging to the armed movements”. She denied that the detainees have any link with the armed movements. “They’re ordinary citizens who work selling dried tomatoes.” The coordinator added that the inhabitants of the camps now live in panic due to the arrests and repeated accusations by security authorities. In East Jebel Marra, pro-government militiamen shot and killed a 15 year old herder named Abdelnabi Mahjoub near the garrison guard of Khasan Tunjur on Monday. A relative of the deceased told Radio Dabanga that the militiamen then robbed him and fled from the scene. File photo: Darfuri displaced (Hamid Abdulsalam / Unamid)Related: South Darfur security releases displaced again (14 November 2014)

Security authorities arrested eight displaced people in the area of Saboun El Fagur, east of Kass locality in South Darfur on Sunday.

According to the women’s coordinator of the Kass camps, the detainees include Mohammed Ishaq Bosh, Siyam Gibril, Ahmed Abu El Lulu, and Siyam Bahruldin and four others whose names have not been verified. “They were whipped and tortured, and accused of belonging to the armed movements”.

She denied that the detainees have any link with the armed movements. “They’re ordinary citizens who work selling dried tomatoes.”

The coordinator added that the inhabitants of the camps now live in panic due to the arrests and repeated accusations by security authorities.

In East Jebel Marra, pro-government militiamen shot and killed a 15 year old herder named Abdelnabi Mahjoub near the garrison guard of Khasan Tunjur on Monday. A relative of the deceased told Radio Dabanga that the militiamen then robbed him and fled from the scene.

File photo: Darfuri displaced (Hamid Abdulsalam / Unamid)

Related: South Darfur security releases displaced again (14 November 2014)