Turabi’s family accuse Sudan security of intimidation
April 13, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The family of a jailed opposition leader accused agents from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) of resorting to intimidation tactics during his stay in hospital where he was recently admitted.
He stressed that Turabi needs to be moved for treatment abroad, something which authorities have refused to allow so far.
Essam said that NISS officers make unannounced entrances into Turabi’s room in the hospital and put him under close surveillance watch which he claimed increases his tensions.
The Islamist leader was arrested last January without charges and remains in detention beyond the time period a person can be detained without being referred to court for prosecution. The government said it is keeping him in custody for “security reasons”.
Several mediation attempts made by Islamic brotherhood figures abroad to secure his release failed and president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir refused to let him free.
Turabi’s wife told Sudan Tribune this month that Bashir’s assistant Nafie Ali Nafie, considered a hardliner, convinced Bashir to keep him in jail on the grounds that letting him out may lead to a popular uprising incited by him.
This week Turabi’s party leveled a new accusation against the government saying that it has poisoned him leading to a quick deterioration in his health.
Turabi was the mastermind behind the 1989 coup staged by Bashir. But the pair fell out following the introduction of a bill to limit the president’s powers in 1999, a move which the president resisted by dissolving parliament and declaring a state of emergency.
He was in an out of jail the whole time after splitting ranks with Bashir over accusations ranging from staging a coup attempt to standing behind the rebellion that broke out in Darfur.
The PCP chief is believed to be seeking to avenge his ouster which was orchestrated by his former disciples. The party has acknowledged that it made a mistake by planning the 1989 and bring Bashir to power.
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Makuei
Turabi’s family accuse Sudan security of intimidation
You reap what you sow!!
Cibaipiath Junub Sudan
Turabi’s family accuse Sudan security of intimidation
Turabi is going to die in the hands of NISS and Nafie. His death will be a disaster in Khartuom as to compare it with his immediate release to enable him attend further Medical treatment in places he psychologically feels best for him.
johnny
Turabi’s family accuse Sudan security of intimidation
He was the first to support Beshir and now he is facing the wrath of whom he had been fully supporting to undermine and marginalize the rest of the sudanese population who were neither stakeholders in the government, now it is his turn, what goes around comes around.
Akech
Turabi’s family accuse Sudan security of intimidation
Hitre return home if there is no thing outside hit, A fighter fight his wife when there is nobody to fight!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Nafi Ali Nafi will finish all of you who when thrown him to ICC so gay be careful.