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** Topic: SUDAN: DEATH UNDER TORTURE **
Title: Detainee Dies Under Torture
A Press Release From 'Sudan News & Views'
London 10 May 1994
Following our previous press release on 25 April 1994 on the death under
torture of Nadir Abdel Hameed Khairy, 'Sudan News & Views' has since
obtained the following confirmed information from the victim's brother,
who now lives as a refugee in Holland:
Nadir, born in 1964, joined the Ministry of Agriculture as an
agricultural engineer in 1988. He was dismissed from his job by the
current military regime for political reasons. He is married with two
children.
He was arrested in December 1993 for the third time. On a previous
occasion, he was picked up from the airport coming from Cairo. He was
accused of working for the now-banned Umma Party and of carrying
messages between opposition leaders inside and outside Sudan.
Since his recent arrest in December 1993, his place of detention wan not
known to his family. On 4 April 1994, Security officers visited his wife
to tell her that her husband has been transferred to the Military
Hospital in Omdurman. His wife, when visited him the same day in the
hospital, was shocked by the severe swelling and disfiguration. She
said that all his body carried obvious marks of severe brutality and
torture.
When his family went to visit him in the hospital on 5 April1994, they
were told that he died and the Security had collected his body. The body
was never handed over to his family. To add to the tragedy, his mother
also died shortly after hearing the news as a result of the shock.
It is firmly believed that the death of Nadir is a direct result of
severe torture. It is not the first time that political prisoners in
Sudan has been tortured to death in the notorious secret detention
centres known as 'ghost houses', specially those suspected of having
information about opposition activities.
Amnesty International, among many other human rights organisations, is
continually reporting cases of systematic ill-treatment and torture.
This is yet another grim reminder of the abysmal human rights record of
the current Sudanese government.
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* 'Sudan News & Views' is an independent (non-partisan, *
* non-governmental) electronic publication based in London *
* working to advocate peace, human rights and humanitarian *
* aid for the Sudan. *
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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 94 14:31:46 BST
From: Yasin Miheisi <yasin@gn.apc.org>
Message-Id: <9407021331.AA00844@gn.apc.org>
Subject: SNV-1b
Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar
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