On 7 January 2016, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) arrested Orwa Al Sadig Ismail Hamdoun, a political activist affiliated to Sudan's main opposition party - the National Umma Party - and brother to Emad Al Sadig Ismail Hamdoun, arrested at the Omdurman headquarters of the National Umma Party on 14 December 2015.
Detained incommunicado for several days, Orwa was tortured and denied the right to see a lawyer or to receive visits from his family. In view of this information, Alkarama and the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) to ask the Sudanese authorities to guarantee his mental and physical health and to release him.
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