Eight men, Abubaker Hamed Nur, Yusuf Mohammad Faleh, Mohammad Bashir Ahmed, Bashir Bushara, Hashem al-Tayeb, Abdel Rahman Ahmad, Mohammad Hashem Abdel Rahman and Ibrahim Mohammad Hassan, were reportedly all detained in connection with the current conflict in Darfur, between Sudanese government forces and the armed opposition group the Sudan Liberation Army. Amnesty International is concerned that they may have been tortured or ill-treated in detention.
