The Sudanese attorney general issued arrest warrants on Monday evening against several officials of a Sudanese paramilitary force suspected of kidnapping in Khartoum and torturing a civilian to death, a case which had provoked great outrage.
In a statement released by the Suna agency, the prosecutor's office claims that the autopsy of Bahaa Eddin Nouri's body shows that he suffered from several injuries leading to his death.
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A procedure has been initiated to
"immediately arrest and transfer to the prosecutor all members of the Rapid Support Forces involved in the arrest and then in the death of Nouri so that they can be prosecuted"
by justice, it added in the report. communicated.
Bahaa Eddine Nouri, aged 45, member of the
"resistance committee"
of his neighborhood, an association very active in denouncing the regime of ex-president Omar al-Bashir, was kidnapped on December 16 when he was seated at a café terrace in Kalakla, a district in the south of Khartoum, by men in civilian clothes in a car without plates, according to local press.
His body was found five days later in the mortuary of the hospital in Omdurman, a large city facing Khartoum.
The family refused to bury him after discovering traces of beatings and torture.
According to the first elements of the investigation, Baha Eddine Nouri died during his interrogation by the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces, declared initially the spokesman of the government, Faisal Mohamed Saleh.
His death had caused a wave of indignation.
On Sunday, in a statement, the Sudanese Professional Association, which initiated the vast protest movement that led to the dismissal of Omar al-Bashir, gave the government and the Rapid Support Forces 15 days to
"engage actions against the people who killed Bahaa Eddine Nouri, otherwise the street will speak ”.
The association demanded the lifting of immunity against all those who participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Nouri.
Accused of having committed atrocities during the war in Darfur (2003-2019), the Rapid Support Forces are led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, “number two” of the Sovereignty Council, the country's highest executive body and formed after an agreement between civilians and soldiers following the fall of Bashir.