Sudan: Arab Human Rights Organisation Decries Wave of Arrests in Sudan

29 April 2014

Cairo — The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has decried the arrest by security forces of seven people from different areas in Sudan, including the human rights activist Mohamed Omar Ibrahim, four Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party leaders, and the displaced El Tayeb Abo Abdel Malik and one other unknown person.

On 27 April, security forces in Blue Nile State apprehended the rights activist, writer, and chairman of Advisory Board of Geisan Graduates Union Mohamed Omar Ibrahim from his house at El Riyad district in Baldmazin, Blue Nile State. He was campaigning against the alleged corruption at Sudan's Ministry of Finance. It is reported that Mohamed Omar Ibrahim had already been arrested three times; the last occasion was on 3 December 2013.

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