Khartoum: Rhino – In the third incident of its kind in two weeks, police officers affiliated with the Port Sudan government arrested Sheikh Al-Mubarak Ahmed Salem, head of the Council of Imams of Khartoum Bahri and member of the Council of Scholars of Sudan.

Sheikh Salem had said in his Friday sermon that the current war “is not a war of dignity, there are no good people in it, there are no victors in it, and everyone who carries a weapon in it is unjust to himself and will meet his Lord as unjust to himself and to the people.”

He added: “There are no martyrs on either side of the conflict,” and addressed messages to young people calling on them not to join any side that carries weapons.

For her part, the wife of the detained sheikh, Fawzia Ahmed Ibrahim, said that her husband, who is 73 years old, suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and that armed men wearing police uniforms took him from his home after midnight after beating him and accusing him of being a “follower of the civil parties which Opposing the war.”

He was then taken, in critical condition from the beating to an unknown location. Fawzia appealed to all activists to work for his release.

The army’s intelligence service arrested Sheikh Al-Jazuli, imam of the Ansar Al-Sunna Mosque in the city, on the 5th of this month, following a sermon in which he spoke about the deterioration of living conditions and the detention of large quantities of goods, including corn, in warehouses believed to belong to the authorities, according to the Darfur24 news site.

The website quoted sources as saying that Sheikh Al-Jazouli’s arrest came after a sermon he delivered at the Ansar Al-Sunna Mosque in Kadugli last Friday, in which he addressed what he described as “the injustice inflicted on citizens” due to the detention of large quantities of foodstuffs in warehouses belonging to authorities in the city.

On June 17, military intelligence affiliated with the 54th Brigade in Dilling arrested Salah Suleiman Jabr al-Dar, 57, following a sermon he delivered after Friday prayers at the Al-Turaath Mosque in the city center, in which he addressed the deteriorating living conditions in the region.

The family held the military intelligence in Al-Dalnaj and the leadership of the 54th Infantry Brigade fully responsible for Salah’s safety, asserting that his continued detention without formal charges or trial constitutes a violation of his legal and human rights.

The family called on the relevant authorities to intervene urgently to secure his release, warning of the health and psychological repercussions that could affect him if he remains in detention.