Unknown men gang-rape former official’s daughter in Khartoum
January 6, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – The 15-year-old daughter of a leading member of the suspended committee for dismantling the former regime was gang-raped by unknown assailants in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, relatives and friend of her family told Sudan Tribune on Friday.
The young girl was abducted from a street in the southern Khartoum suburb of Almaamoura on Friday morning, waiting for transportation to take her to the school for private lessons. She was taken to a house in an unknown destination where she was raped by three men.
The rape survivor was then returned to a site near the Manshiyya bridge. where the perpetrators asked her to inform her father of what had happened before to release her.
During the Bashir regime, rapes and sexual assaults took place in the war-affected areas of the Darfur region, Blue Nile state South Kordofan state. Also, women were raped after arrest for participating in pro-democracy demonstrations before and after the fall of the former regime.
This case is characterized by the fact that it was carried out to avenge her father, who was known for his opposition to the Islamist regime and had been arrested several times.
The incident took place three days before a conference to agree on a new mechanism to dismantle the al-Bashir regime. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan immediately after the October 25 coup froze the Empowerment Removal Committee, reinstated to the civil service the dismissed partisans of the former regime and restored confiscated assets and properties to the corrupt Islamist individuals and groups.
In December 2021, The United Nations reported that 13 women ad girls were raped by the security services after their arrest for participation in an anti-coup protest.
After the coup, Khartoum and the other regions are witnessing unprecedented insecurity including tribal clashes, looting, robbery, and sexual assaults.
(ST)