(Emergency Lawyers) Issues Report on Death Prisons in Khartoum
Follow-up - moatinoon
The Group of Emergency Lawyers issued a lengthy report, in which it monitored the places and quality of the detainees in Asim Khartoum, which both parties to the war (armed forces and RSF) take as places of detention for civilians and military personnel. The report revealed that detainees were subjected to extensive types of torture and cruel treatment, including starvation, sexual assault and death in detention.
According to the group, the report was prepared on the basis of field work on the ground by emergency lawyers and collaborating volunteers over a period of two months, covering Khartoum State in its seven localities and three cities and a recording of the testimonies of 22 sources and 42 former detainees and eyewitnesses.
The report counted 44 rapid support detention centres and 8 FARDC detention centres, spread between temporary detention centres where detainees were assembled, interrogated and screened and subsequently transferred to permanent detention centres.
The monitoring of cases of torture, according to the statements of detainees and eyewitnesses, practised in the detentions of the parties to the war, which included torture during interrogation by suspension from the legs, electrocution, extinguishing the aftermath of cigarettes, hard work and digging graves for the parties deaths. The policy of starvation, as a form of torture, was common to the parties detention facilities.
Moreover, detainees suffer from extremely poor health and environmental conditions and (the disaster of lack of health and medical services is one of the causes of death for detainees who stay for several months without receiving medical attention for injuries caused by torture in its various forms. The conditions of the detainees and the lack of ventilation, water and starvation lead to the loss of the detainees lives, according to the report.
The report documented a case of a ransom request for the release of a detainee who had been detained near the 10-year mosque by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and some individuals had contacted his family requesting 10 million Sudanese pounds for his release. He remains detained for the familys inability to pay the sum, while many similar accounts are being verified and documented by emergency lawyers.
