HUDO Centre Date: 2nd December 2024 No.: H.K/UA/15/024 URGENT APPEAL GIS AND SAF ARRESTED COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS IN AL ABBASIYA, SUDAN Since 11th November 2024, twelve (12) community leaders and activists were arrested by General Intelligence Service (GIS) in collaboration with SAF in Al-Abbasiya. They were later transported to Abu-Jibaiha military garrison where they are held incommunicado. No reason was given as to why they were arrested. On 11th November 2024, a group of soldiers from General Intelligence Service (GIS) and Sudan Armed Force (SAF) came on three (3) vehicles in Al-Abbasiya and arrested twelve (12) community leaders and activists from their homes. They detained them at the GIS cells for one (1) night and the next day (12th November 2024) they were transferred them to SAF cells at SAF military barracks in Al-Abbasiya. On 13th November 2024, the twelve (12) detainees were deported under heavy security (guards) to Abu-Jibaiha military garrison. And since then, they have been kept incommunicado. According to HUDO Centre credible source, the detainees have not been interrogated yet and their fate is unknown. The names of detainees are; 1) Omdda/ Mahmoud Edriss Elzaibaq (72 years old, the town mayor and Amir representative). 2) Mr. Mohammed Abdalla Abaru (67 years old and the former chairperson of the farmer union in Al-Abbasiya) 3) Mr. Nasreldin Abubaker Elmansour (55 years old and one of the dismissed Amir family member) 4) Mr. Tawheed Eltahir Eisa Jundi (48 years old).