SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Human rights lawyer: ‘Internet blackout hides Sudan coup atrocities’

2/11/2021: Radio Dabanga – Human rights lawyer: ‘Internet blackout hides Sudan coup atrocities’

Human rights lawyer Ali Ajab told Radio Dabanga that “cutting off the internet aims to hide the crimes of the Sudan Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces,” and that if the internet service is restored, “the world will witness the extent of the atrocities committed by these forces against peaceful and defenceless demonstrators”.

He added that Abdulfattah al-Burhan, leader of the military coup, “restored the operations department of the security apparatus specialised in detentions and torture”.

Ajab said that the wide detention campaign against pro-democracy politicians, members of Resistance Committees, and other activists, is carried out by several parties, such as the Military Intelligence that takes detainees to military sites, and the security apparatus, which uses its old headquarters in Khartoum North near the Shendi bus station - though the amended Security Service Law does not give the General Intelligence Service (GIS) the authority to detain people.