breaching military laws. His arrest was under the direct orders of Major/ Faiz Balla the commander of RSF in Blue Nile State and a former locality governor during Al-Bashir regime. During detention, Mr. Elbur was interrogated about the social media article (that he had posted on Facebook) criticizing the acts of RSF commandant for not respecting the procedures during fuel distribution exercise in one of the petrol stations in town(Appendix – 1).Mr. Elbur was intimidated and warned not to write/post such articles again, and then he was released on 11th April 2020. Re-arrest: On 27th April 2020, Mr. Edriss Elbur was arrested again from his shop by RSF soldiers and detained at RSF office in Damazin town. While being there, he was interrogated and physically tortured (beaten) by RSF Captain/ Gouja. The following day (28th April 2020) Mr. Elbur was released with threats of being re-arrested again. The cause of the second arrest was because he opened a case against RSF for having arrested him illegally. Basing on the interrogation, the second arrest was meant to intimidate him so that he drops the case. But, he insisted on following the due course of the law(Appendix – 2) supported by some volunteer lawyers. Arrest among IDP 2.1.5 Passenger detained and insulted at a checkpoint in Kosti On 17th February 2020, Mr. Hassan Elamein Suliman (29 years old) a university graduate from Teera tribe/ Nuba was traveling from Abu-Gebaiha town of South Kordufan/ Nuba Mountains to Khartoum with public transport (a bus). When the bus stopped at the western checkpoint of Kosti town, three security personnel in civilian clothes entered the bus for the regular checks. On reaching Mr. Hassan’s seat, one of them (security personnel) started bullying him by asking questions like, “why are you so black”, ”are you a Sudanese” e.t.c? Thereafter, Mr. Hassan showed them his identity card but they insisted on taking him to their office. While at their office, he was insulted further and was referred to as a slave (Abid). He was detained at the security checkpoint office for two hours. He was released after the passengers and their bus had refused to go/ leave without him. 12

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