his sentence according to the verdict. The Supreme court has not given its ruling on the
matter.
Since Awadia Agabana was murdered by police in 2012, the family has been targeted
by the community’s security police.
2.4.2 Breach of Civilian and child rights by police in Musalamia
On 17th July 2017, the troop of policemen stopped a civilian named; Magsoud
and they tried to arrest him, reasoning that he was suspected to be drunk. He
was stopped along the road at Alhilla Aljadeida neighborhood in Musalamia of
Hassaheisa locality at Aljazeera state whereby most of the residents of this
neighborhood are IDPs from Nuba Mountains.
Magsoud demanded for an arrest warrant but police went on to use coercive
means and fired some bullets in the air which led residents to gather in support of
Magsoud and this forced police to run away. After a while, a bigger group of
police came and randomly arrested twenty (20) people among them was an
underage girl of 17 years old called; Maria Ibrahim. She was beaten by seven
policemen among them two were identified as; Ibrahim and Elbadri.
She was denied treatment but her mother later contacted a lawyer who forced
police to send Maria for medical checkup. They later went to the medical facility
with form 8 and the doctor prescribed some medicine for her but again police
denied her the medicines.
After her release, Maria with her mother immediately submitted a plea to the
prosecutor. The prosecutor called for investigations against the suspected
policemen and sent the order to the same police office where she was detained.
When they went to the police office, they discovered that the police officer
responsible for investigations is the same policeman that assaulted her.
Maria with her mother were immediately detained in cell and ordered to cancel
the case before the prosecutor or else they would remain in custody. Under such
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