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Bakhit, Al Fadul Altoum and Hamdeen Eisa Al Nour) belonging to the Misseriya
tribe, between Hajlij and Muglad in South Kordofan.
126. Other acts of ill-treatment and torture which the Complainants alleged include:
the arrest on 17 January 2012 of Mr Fathi Bashir El-Feil, a pro-democracy activist
from Al-Abasya Tagali in South Kordofan and the threatening of his family by
security forces; the detention, interrogation and torture on 18 May 2012 of a Nuban
high school student on the accusation of being a rebel; the arrest of Omaia Abdel
Latif Hassan Omaia, a media representative of the SPLM-N6rth on 22 August 2012
and incommunicado detention, since his transfer from Tajmala to Talodi in South
Kordofan, on 3 November 2012; the arrest on 24 October 2012, detention and
beating of 22-year old mother of two, Sarah L, along with 35 other women by
Sudanese security officials, in a national detention facility inside Kadugli town.
127. The Complainants also alleged that, on 10 and 11November 2012, the security
forces of the Respondent State placed 34 women in incommunicado detention
without access to their lawyers or families and without access to medical facilities.
They claimed that while 14 of these women were released on 14 April 2013, the
remaining 20 women remained detained' without any charges until they were
subsequently released on 10 July 2013.
128. The Complainants claimed that, on 18 November 2012, 60 civilians were
reportedly arrested in Dilling, South Kordofan, and taken to the military barracks,
before being transferred to Kadugli. They claimed that the 60 detainees, most of
whom were from the 'Oncho' tribe, which is part of the Nuba ethnic group, were
denied access to their families and legal representation, and were not released until
they had bribed the security officials who kept them captive.
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129. The Complainants submitted that, in Blue Nile, the security forces of the
Respondent State have reportedly arrested young Sudanese men on the accusation
of being SPLM/ A-North soldiers, and placed them in a crowded cell for extended
periods. They claim that those held in the cells have had their hands tied and
beaten with belts on their feet and hands, have been threatened, and witnessed a
military officer shooting two men in the head.
130.
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