Khartoum — The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Akhbar El Watan was beaten during her arrest by the Sudanese security service in Khartoum on Tuesday evening.
The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) released Hanadi El Siddig after three hours of detention that evening, during which she was subjected to "beating and verbal abuse". "The personnel was forced to use violence against me by the operations police," El Siddig told Radio Dabanga yesterday.
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