ARREST OF FIVE CIVILIANS BY MI IN ALFAID UM-ABDALLAH OF SUDAN On 2nd October 2017, a group of military intelligence (MI) personnel on three (3) land cruiser vehicles headed by captain arrested five family members in Elfaid Um-Abdalla. Among the arrested was an underage/boy and all were accused of associating with SPLA-N. Since then, they are held in isolation and denied family visits. They are suspected to be under torture and illtreatment. The arrested people are; Mukhtar Badawi Adam Shaheer, 18 years old; Elsheikh Abdalla Alhasab Mohammed Shaheer, 17 years old; Hassan Albadawi Mohammed Shaheer, 23 years old; Alhasab Aldaw Alkhairi, 34 years old and Adam Aldaw Alkhairi, 52 years old. All the five are cattle keepers from Elfaid UmAbdalla. On 2nd October 2017, twenty four (24) MI personnel on three (3) land cruiser vehicles led by Sudan Army Forces (SAF) Captains named Altayeb and Abdelateef came to Mr. Badawi’s house at Elfaid Um-Abdalla and asked him where his son Mukhtar was? He answered that Mukhtar is grazing the cattle in the nearby village and took them to where Mukhtar and the others were. Immediately, they started beating Mukhtar, Elsheikh, Hassan and Alhasab then they tied all of them and put them in the vehicles. Mukhtar was injured in his face. The MI soldiers drove the detainees around the village market showing them to people and soon after they took them to Abu-Kershola MI office (50 km north Elfaid Um-Abdalla). On 3rd October 2017, Abdo Alhasab Mohammed Shaheer (Uncle of detainees) went to Abu-Kershola MI office to visit the detainees but he was denied access to them. On 4th October 2017, Aldaw Alkhairi with his son Adam went to MI office to ask about his detained son Alhasab Aldaw. They found MI soldier named Alnour Suliman and other two who denied him access to detainees. On this visiting occasion, Adam (the son) was slapped and arrested by Alnour Suleiman who said that “he is also SPLM-N member and we need him”. Then other MI soldiers tied Adam and chased the father out.