After one month of his release, NISS re-arrests Sudanese activist Mohamed Salah Mohamed

Case summary
Name: Mohamed Salah Mohamed Abdelrhman
Age: 24 years old
Where: from Nile street, near university of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
When: at 7 pm on May 12th
Background:
• Mohamed is a prominent activist and a university of Khartoum graduate. Like so many Sudanese youth, he dedicated all his time to help mobilize Sudanese citizens and achieve their demands for democratization, human rights and regime change. In June 2012, Mohamed was detained for two months, a period in which we, his family, were allowed only one visit. During his detention he was subject to torture and inhumane treatment by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS). Mohamed suffers from a kidney disease, which was made worse by his 2012 detention, and as result has been admitted to hospital many times (See Mohamed’s testimony about his detention experience here, and our statement before his release here).
• After the murder of Ali Abakar on March 11th, 2014, a student protestor that was shot inside the University of Khartoum campus, Mohamed, together with hundreds of activists, spent the night at the morgue and attended the funeral and memorial event. During the memorial event, Mohamed gave a speech, where he named and shamed the NISS personnel who were directly involved in Ali’s murder. Since that event, our family home in Khartoum South has been closely under surveillance; at least 10 armed security agents spend the night in front of our house.
• Around midnight on March 15th, Mohamed’s younger brother, Badreldin Salah, was kidnapped by plain-clothed NISS agents a few meters from our home. He was taken to a dark empty yard in Alshagara neighborhood in southern Khartoum, where he was severely assaulted and tortured. His eyeglasses were broken from the severe beating to his face and head; the NISS personnel stole his brand new mobile phone. He was told that “this is just a message” and he and Mohamed “should be careful from the consequences of their actions”.
• On March 20th, Mohamed was arrested from Khartoum International Airport. He was on his way to attend a workshop in Tunisia. Our family and friends accompanied him to the departures hall and left after we received a message from his phone stating that he has boarded the aircraft. However, we returned to the airport after other individuals that were on the same flight alerted us that he was not on board. The airline later confirmed that he did not check in to the flight.
• After President Omer Elbashir’s speech about political freedoms and the release of “all” political detainees, Mohamed was released on April 7th, 2014 . As same as in the first detention, Mohamed was subjected to different forms of torture and inhumane treatment. Together with other detainees, they were kept in a very cold cells well known at NISS by (the fridge), detainees suffered from different forms of ill-treatment, including prevention from medical care. We, as his family were not able to visit him while he was detained, or get any information about his wellbeing. He was not been able to contact lawyer, or to know the charges which was the base of his detention.
Development:
• On May 12, 2014; after one month of his release NISS re-arrested Mohamed Salah, he was kidnapped from Nile Street, near the University of Khartoum. According to friends and eye witnesses, Mohamed felt he was under surveillance inside the university campus, he took a car with two other friends and tried to find a secure place, the car was stopped few meters from the university by a group of plain clothed armed men who introduced themselves as NISS personnel.
• As in the first and second time of his detention, NISS still denying his detention and informed the family to wait for “couple” of days until information about his whereabouts or wellbeing can be disclosed.
• We are deeply concerned about Mohamed’s physical and psychological wellbeing. And call for his immediate release. The detention is a clear violation to the Sudanese constitution and international human rights conventions; it’s further clear contradiction to the allegation of the government of Sudan about freedoms and the president call to a national dialogue.

For further information about the case please contact his sister: Walaa Salah [email protected]





























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