Rhino: Agencies Former detainees in the detention centers of the joint forces fighting alongside the Sudanese army in El Fasher revealed shocking stories and scenes they experienced during their detention.
The accounts of the survivors of the armed movements’ detention centers in El Fasher shed light on the illegal detention centers in which inhumane torture such as starvation is practiced, which caused the death of dozens of them inside these prisons, according to the accounts heard by “Darfur24”.
The newspaper ‘Darfur24’ said it interviewed a number of survivors and close relatives of some of the victims who died in these detention centers as a result of starvation and torture of various kinds.
‘Muhaymin Yusuf, a young man in his twenties, spent 47 days inside one of the detention centers of the joint forces of the armed movements, before he was released by an officer who knew a family member.
Yusuf was detained at the former UNAMID headquarters, which is now the headquarters of the armed movements’ forces in El Fasher. Yusuf said he ‘spent the whole night in the headquarters before his father returned the next morning, only to be officially informed that he was accused of informing the RSF, to be transferred and subjected for 47 days to torture without interrogation.
Yousef confirmed that he witnessed the death of seven people among the detainees due to hunger, disease and torture. ‘These seven people died in our Hanker alone, not to mention other detention centers,’ he said.
The deceased are being transported by a combat vehicle, he said, ‘but we do not know where they are headed’.
A police officer, who preferred to withhold his identity for security reasons, told ‘Darfur24’ that the joint force arrested the police assistant ‘Abdelmoez Jamal al-Din’, who works in passports and immigration in North Darfur, and hails from the city of Gedaref in eastern Sudan, from his home in “aldaraja” neighborhood last June.
He said that the movements had previously asked the policeman to leave his house, which is adjacent to the house of Major General Jido Hamdan Abu Nashouk, commander of the Rapid Support Sector in North Darfur, before he was arrested from his home and taken to the detention center, where he died as a result of torture, according to the doctors’ report.
He added that ‘the Joint Force has a number of arbitrary detention facilities in UNAMID and Zamzam camp, and recently opened other prisons in its new stationing area in Golo Reservoir, 9 km west of El Fasher,’ explaining that the Joint Force has been accumulating money from these arbitrary detentions after demanding that the families of the detainees pay ransom money in exchange for their release.
Human rights defenders in North Darfur revealed that the joint force of the armed movements allied with the Sudanese army carried out a wide campaign of arrests of political leaders and civilians on the grounds of suspicion and collusion with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
In a letter addressed to SLM leader Minni Arko Minawi in late June, lawyer and human rights defender Abdelaziz Osman Sam said that the movement’s intelligence service arrested former parliamentarian and human rights activist Siham Hassan Hassaballah.
