,•,.r,) 6�ttEB { '(rron,111"". Human R;ghts our Human and Peoples' Rights Collective Respons,bil,ty Kober Prison, where they suffered torture in the form of severe beatings, were injected with a sedative-like substance, and were humiliated and insulted. 6. The Complainant submitted that he was denied medical attention for injuries resulting from torture and diseases caused by poor detention conditions. He submitted that he was taken to NISS Headquarters for interrogation at least four times while at Kober Prison. 7. The Complainant submitted that on either 19 or 20 February 2011, he, Mr. al­ Mahdi, and other prisoners experienced a mock execution whereby prison officers placed guns at the back of their heads and the call of a high-ranking officer, the officers cocked their guns as if to shoot. The Complainant submitted that mock executions are common at Kober Prison and that political prisoners faced a firing squad in this manner, with some being shot on occasion. He added that this experience has left him with psychological trauma. 8. The Complainant alleged that Kober Prison is in a secret location, and prisoners are not called by their names to make tracing them difficult in case of death. The Complainant added that the conditions of detention are poor, and torture is rampant. Prisoners were suspended from the ceiling and beaten; made to squat on glass bottles until the bottles were half full of blood from their anus; others had their penis tied to prevent them from urinating until their kidneys burst; some were injected with a substance which made them insane to prevent them from speaking of the horrors; and Darfurian prisoners were forced to sign confessions under threat of violence, death and rape of their families. The Complainant claimed that even after the Darfurian prisoners signed the confessions, they were executed. 9. The Complainant alleged that he and Mr. al-Mahdi were compelled at gunpoint to sign documents stating that they were never to mention what happened while in detention or face re-arrest and imprisonment. 10. The Complainant stated that on 13 March 2011, the day of their release from Kober Prison, he and Mr. al-Mahdi were blindfolded, handcuffed, driven around for six hours, then finally taken to a National Security Office, labeled 'Crimes against Sudan,' where they were remanded for three to four weeks, without access to toilet or water, worsening the Complainant's kidney pains. The Complainant averred that they were then transferred to 'Information Police,' also known as 'Mubalis,' where they spent approximately fifteen days with minimal food. The Complainant alleged that torture was Mubalis, occasionally involving children, including some aged An Organ of the (,:» AfriGan Union \,�ii 2 African Commis 31 Bijilo Phone: (