A group of political and legal activists on Friday travelled from Khartoum to En Nahud in West Kordofan in support of the head of Sudanese Congress Party (SCP), Ibrahim El Sheikh, detained in En Nahud prison for about one month.
The Chairman of the Darfur Bar Association, Mohamed Abdallah El Doma, told Radio Dabanga that the political and legal activists, who arrived on Friday afternoon at En Nahud, will visit the SCP leader in prison.
According to Mastour Ahmed, the party’s Political Secretary, El Sheikh is the only SCP leader still held in En Nahud. Two other detained party leaders have been transferred from En Nahud to El Fula, the capital of West Kordofan.
The opposition party leader was taken by the security service from his home in En Nahud on 8 June. He was charged with ‘undermining the Constitution’, after he had publicly denounced attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on civilians in Darfur and Kordofan.
Arrests of other party leaders followed, including two taken during a raid on 28 June a the party’s premises in En Nahud, and El Jareeda correspondent Hassan Ishag was detained because he wrote an article on the reasons for El Sheikh’s arrest.
Reporting by Radio Dabanga
File photo: Sudanese Congress Party leader Ibrahim El Sheikh Abdel Rahman