Sudan’s army and security forces have been accused of torturing people to death and operating “execution chambers” by a prominent human rights group in the country.
The Emergency Lawyers group stated that it had documented hundreds of arrests in the capital, Khartoum.
The prominent rights group said that in the “worst cases”, some captives had later been discovered dead with evidence of torture.
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In March, the Sudanese army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against which it is fighting a bitter civil war that has killed tens of thousands in two years, according to the BBC. The army, is however, yet to officially comment on the situation.
Throughout the war, the Emergency Lawyers group has documented heartbreaking moments of violence by both the army and the RSF.
In an official statement on social media channel X, Emergency Lawyers revealed it had observed a “dangerous escalation in violations”.
The group also claimed that some detainees were arrested at random and taken to large detention centres.
“Their fates range from continued detention in inhumane conditions, trials conducted by security agencies that lack the most basic standards of justice, or release in poor health,” the statement said.
“In the worst cases, some are found dead after being killed or declared dead as a result of torture.”
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Under the oppressive rule of President Omar al-Bashir, the use of torture was very common.
Throughout the ongoing war, the RSF has also been found to have abused and executed prisoners.
In March, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said both sides were responsible for “a widespread pattern of arbitrary detention, torture and ill-treatment of detainees”.
It added that both the RSF and the Sudan army had used “rape and other forms of sexual violence, arbitrary arrest and detention, as well as torture and ill-treatment”.
According to reports, 12 million people have been forced from their homes, and famine has been declared in parts of the country just because of this war.
Last week, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the war has fueled the worst cholera outbreak in the nation in many years.
BBC reported that there have been nearly 100,000 cases of the disease and 2,470 deaths in the past year,
