Khartoum: Rhino – The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate condemned the death of writer, broadcaster and programmer Dr. Yahya Hammad Fadlallah due to torture in army detention.
The syndicate said in a statement that the writer and journalist Yahya Hammad Fadlallah was tortured by the army intelligence, after he was arrested from his home in the Droshab neighborhood in Khartoum Bahri with his son on December 11, 2024.
He was released on January 10, 2025, according to his family, but he died on January 13 at Al-Naw Hospital in Omdurman.
She said that Yahya Fadlallah died as a result of his deteriorating health condition during his detention, as he was suffering from diabetes and was denied treatment and subjected to beatings and torture.
Yahya Hammad Fadlallah worked as a program editor at Sudan TV and Blue Nile TV, and had a popular column titled “Tr al-Lum”. He also worked as a program editor on Sudanese radio, and emerged as a novelist, where he published many literary works, most notably his famous novel “Zugendi’s Marriage”.
In addition to literature, he was a poet and composer, who presented many songs and specialized in heritage and popular literature, contributing to the enrichment of the Sudanese cultural scene through his creative works and artistic initiatives.
