Sudan releases the last activist of 30 January protesters
June 8, 2011 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) released the last of the activists detained for taking part in January demonstrations against the regime, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Adil Ibrahim Karar, 56, was one of over 70 people who were detained in connection with peaceful protests that had begun the previous day in the streets of the Sudanese capital. He was detained on 31 January at a bookshop in Omdurman.
Adil was released on 29 May after spending four months in solitary confinement which affected his poor health.
Speaking to Sudan Tribune in Khartoum, the civil engineer who had been detained several times in the past, said he was consulting doctors and performing a number of medical examinations as results of the poor conditions and torture he experienced in prison.
He suffers from asthma and back problems, however the security agents denied him medical treatment and access to pain medication.
Adil, who had been detained without charge, “was subjected to torture when he requested pain medication for back pain and arthritis caused by prior torture,” said the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, in a statement issued last May.
On 27 April, the security services arrested Adil Karar’s for nine hours wife and his two children, aged 13 and 18. His family sent three letters in March and April to the NISS requesting to charge him or release him.
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