Sudan: Fear of Torture/ Incommunicado detention

Sudan: Fear of Torture/ Incommunicado detention

Index Number: AFR 54/020/2006
Date Published: 31 May 2006
Categories: Africa, Sudan

Scores of people including dozens of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have been detained over the past few weeks in several towns in Darfur. They were protesting against the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) and many of them, including Mohamed Osman Mohamed (m) aged 21 yrs, Otash IDP camp; Ibrahim Siddiq Ali (m), Kalma IDP camp; Halima Adam Ibrahim (f), Kalma IDP camp; Yagoub Ismail Mohamed (m), Kalma IDP camp; Habib Adam Yagoub, (m) aged 37 from Fur ethnic group, Kalma IDP camp; Ismail Mohamed Hamid (m) aged 40 yrs, Fur ethnic group, Kalma IDP camp and two others from Otash IDP Camp and at least 20 others from Kalma IDP Camp, are still being held incommunicado where they are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.