Khartoum – Darfur 24
A report issued by the Emergency Lawyers Group in Sudan revealed 52 detention sites used by the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, detention centers within Khartoum State, including “44” centers affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces and 8 centers affiliated with the armed forces, in addition to the presence of temporary and permanent detention centers. .
The report monitored a series of violations committed by both parties inside those detention centers that are classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
These violations include murder, kidnapping, unlawful arrest, unlawful detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and rape.
The report, which heard from 64 former detainees, sources and eyewitnesses, stated that torture and cruel and degrading treatment of civilian detainees and military prisoners is the common denominator in all detention centers and detention centers for both parties, and that detainees are subjected to interrogation under horrific torture procedures such as hanging by the legs, electric shocks, and extinguishing them. Cigarette butts. Cruel and degrading treatment also includes forcing detainees to do hard labor and dig graves for those killed on both sides.
The report indicated the death of a number of detainees because the detention centers lack ventilation and high humidity, which leads to difficulty in breathing.
Detainees and eyewitnesses reported that both sides of the fighting used starvation as a means of torture.
One of the detainees at the Kafouri Center of the Rapid Support Forces said, according to the report, a copy of which was seen by Darfur 24, “that for six weeks they continued to receive small rations of food and water, as revealed by the liberation of a large number of detainees by the Rapid Support Forces.” Civilian prisoners and detainees from the detention centers in the military zone in Al-Shajara reported a horrific example of the use of starvation as a means of torture, in addition to the fact that the detainees suffer from a lack of drinking water.
The report revealed sexual assaults inside detention centers for both sides of the conflict, including males and females, and monitored female and child detainees in a number of centers affiliated with both sides, as they mixed with the rest of the detainees.
According to report, lack of health and medical services led to the death of a number of detainees with chronic diseases