Sudan: Further information on Fear for safety /fear of torture or ill-treatment/ incommunicado detention. New concern: medical concern

Index Number: AFR 54/050/2003
Date Published: 24 June 2003
Categories: Africa, Sudan

Ramadan Ismail and Juma Mahamoud are reportedly still in incommunicado detention in Dongola, Northern Sudan, where they are at risk of torture or ill-treatment. On 22 or 23 June, Abu Nigel El Amin and Juma Omar El-Nur were taken to Khartoum Hospital for medical treatment under heavy surveillance by security forces, having reportedly been tortured in detention.