July 24, 2024 (GEDAREF) – Emergency Lawyers, a watchdog group monitoring rights abuses in Sudan, has accused the military intelligence of ethnically profiling and unlawfully detaining civilians for alleged ties to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Wednesday, the lawyers said, “Gedaref state is witnessing intense activity by the security cell run by military intelligence, where they are detaining civilians on a tribal and regional basis, in addition to activists calling for an end to the war.” They revealed that military intelligence arrested 120 civilians in the locality of Al Shoak in Gedaref state last June, under the pretext of cooperating with the RSF simply because they belonged to tribal components from West Darfur. The statement pointed out that the army base in Gedaref is holding 70 people, and others have forcibly disappeared. Some of the detainees were transferred to the Gedaref police station after being charged with crimes punishable by life imprisonment and execution. The Emergency Lawyers reported that the Gedaref Municipal Court “issued sentences of execution, imprisonment, and fines for some detainees and aborted their right to a fair trial.” Multiple drone attacks targeted military and security sites in the eastern …

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