Doctors: Detainee Allegedly Tortured in Sudan Dies
Published on: Sunday 21 July 2019
A Sudanese civilian detained and allegedly tortured by security agents in a central town has died in custody, a doctors committee linked to the country's protest movement said Sunday.
The man died on Saturday in the town of Dilling in the state of South Kordofan after he was detained by agents of the feared National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), the doctors committee said in a statement.
The detainee "passed away on July 20, 2019 from torture while in detention at the NISS office in Dilling," the statement said without elaborating on the circumstances of his arrest.
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