Min Allah Hussein Hadi, who was convicted by a Sennar court of belonging to the SPLA-North, said he has been tortured while in detention.

He alleged that elements of the Sudanese Security and Intelligence Service have been torturing them to force out a confession and accused judges of encouraging such acts in order to please the authorities.

“We were being tortured in the presence of judges. You know if you don’t confess you can be put in sackcloth. We had undergone differenr types of torture to the extent that we were being threatened with sodomy,” he said.

Min Allah criticized last August's ruling against him by the appeals court in Sinja town as unjust and politically motivated.

The court amended charges against him from life imprisonment to death. A Khartoum supreme court upheld that sentence.

El Tijani Hassan, a lawyer of the defence team, previously told Radio Tamazuj that a new appeal would be raised at the Supreme Court in Khartoum against the death sentences and the confiscation of SPLM-N properties in Damazin, Blue Nile.

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