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.
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