Zubeida Sandal Hajjar, her nine-month-old son Hashem Abdel Shakour Haslem, and her sister Zahra Sandal Hajjar were arrested by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Khartoum on 8 June 2008. They are believed to be held incommunicado in a NISS detention centre, where they are at risk of torture, ill-treatment or enforced disappearance.
