IMAGE SOURCE,AFPIn our series of letters from African journalists, Sudanese writer Zeinab Mohammed Salih looks at the return of feared security measures that had ended after the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir.
Sudan’s once notorious secret police are back in action, abducting people who it is feared might never be seen again.
Last month, in the middle of the night, about 30 armed men in plain clothes stormed into the Khartoum home of Amira Osman.
The trained engineer is a prominent women’s rights activist here. She is also a member of the Sudanese Communist Party.
It is believed that she was arrested by the General Intelligence Service (GIS) formerly known as the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) but the authorities have not commented.
Ms Osman’s older sister, Amani, who is a human rights lawyer, described what happened.
“We were shocked,” she told me.
“My children and my nieces and nephews were terrorised when they saw men with Kalashnikov guns, some of them were also carrying sticks, just to arrest her.
“My six-year-old son now has difficulty sleeping, because what he saw triggered a memory of my arrest when he was only three years old. I disappeared for 38 days without seeing my children,” Amani added.
“But the sad thing is, we are going through that again. We thought that after Bashir’s fall we will no longer face such a thing, but we are ready for it.”
Amani said the security forces did not only terrorise her family, but they also threatened the owner of the shop at the corner of their house and their neighbours too.
The UN mission in Sudan has called for Amira to be released.
Her arrest is just one of several since December, when the GIS were allowed, once again, to take people without informing their families, or lawyers, of their whereabouts.
So far, one other prominent women’s rights activist in Khartoum and dozens from the neighbourhood resistance committees organising protests against Sudan’s military rulers have been arrested.
The junta that seized power in October restored the secret police’s powers in order to curb the relentless wave of protests that have since swept the country.
The protesters demand a return to civilian rule, accusing the military leaders of having close links to the regime of Bashir, who was toppled after a popular uprising in 2019.
Since then, the country had been run by an uneasy coalition comprising both civilians and members of the military who had ultimately been the ones to remove Bashir from office.
Women’s rights activist, Eman Mirghani, who is a member of the resistance committees and a local government employee, was taken by unknown people from near her work place.
Tricked into arrest
Those who picked her up belonged to the GIS, according to people she worked with at the ministry of health for Khartoum state.
Ms Mirghani was lured from her office by a phone call. It was someone pretending to be a colleague who said that they needed to see her outside.
She left the office and was forced into a white pick-up truck and taken to an unknown place, witnesses said.
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Her son Karim Ali told me that his mother was arrested because of her campaigning and “organising civil disobedience at the ministry against the coup”.
The exact number of those arrested is not clear – but activists believe that 70 people have been taken by the GIS and neither their families nor their lawyers know where they are.
The GIS was renamed after Bashir’s removal. Along with the new name, its powers of arrest were curtailed.
