Arrest in Blue Nile 2.1.9 Mr. Edriss Elbur Repeatedly Arrested by RSF in Damazin Mr. Elbur at RSF detention On 9th April 2020, a group of RSF soldiers in Damazin arrested Mr. Edriss Elbur Ahmed (40 years old) a trader and social activist. He was arrested from his shop at Damazin market and taken to RSF detention cell at Ashara Beiut neighbourhood where he was confined with other nine (9) RSF soldiers who were 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 – 2).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 13