Soba Prison News Today

Monday April 3, 2023 - The family of a 22-year-old woman who was found dead in her room are demanding justice as they claim the police are not doing enough to get to the bottom of the matter. Kabirat Sobola, a former student of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, was reportedly murdered in her room in Abeokuta…

Wajdi Saleh, a leading member of the mainstream Forces for Freedom and Change for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, was released on bail on Sunday, meanwhile, a trial of young men accused of killing a police officer was adjourned.

The second quarter of 2022 witnessed an escalation of popular resistance to the ruling military junta in Sudan, presided over by Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, and Lt Gen Mohamed ‘Hemeti’ Dagalo. Lawlessness and banditry by armed groups scourge Darfur and Kordofan, while inter-communal and tribal clashes erupted across the country.

Sudan’s Emergency Lawyers stated that more than 90 people continue to be detained in Soba and Rabak prison, despite the recent decision made by the President of the Sovereignty Council, Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, to lift the State of Emergency and release all detainees.

On Tuesday, Sudan’s Emergency Lawyers organised a vigil in front of the offices of the Attorney General and the Presidency of the Judicial Authority in Khartoum, rejecting the arbitrary detentions ordered by the Governor of Khartoum and the poor health and living conditions in prisons.

The first days of 2022 saw the final collapse of the already tenuous political agreement that reinstated Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok after a period of house arrest following the military coup d’état of October 25 last year. On January 2, PM Hamdok announced his resignation in a televised address to the Sudanese people. Hamdok underlined that he was unable to combine all the components of the transition to reach a unified vision, describing the crisis in the country as political, ...

Sudan’s Emergency Lawyers reported that the authorities launched an extensive detention campaign against activists in Khartoum and El Gezira on Thursday last week. On Monday, more people were detained, most of them in the popular neighbourhoods of Burri in eastern Khartoum, and Ed Deim, south of central Khartoum.

The Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said that it counted 12 injuries during the May 14 anti-coup demonstrations, of which seven in Khartoum and five in Khartoum North (Bahri). The findings were published in a field report yesterday. A disabled person was arrested and imprisoned during the March 12 protests.

Sudan’s ruling junta released 14 detainees from various prisons and detention centres in Sudan on Monday, the first day of Eid El Fitr, the three-day Muslim festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

A solidarity sit-in by relatives of detainees outside Soba Prison in Khartoum, was broken-up by government forces on Saturday evening, lawyers from Sudan report. The sit-in was one of six that were organised by Emergency Lawyers at prisons in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan.