These days, Sudanese circles are crowded with the death of a young man in his forties in mysterious circumstances in one of the detention centers of the Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum.

The Sudanese Youth Union organized a stand in front of the Jabal Awliya Police Presidency in the capital to denounce the death of the young Bahaa El Din Nuri, and the participants raised banners calling for retribution for the deceased, and chanted against the Rapid Support Forces, and the protesters handed over to the Director of the Police Department a memorandum demanding that cars without plates be banned and the arrest authority limited Police and other demands, the police official promised to discuss them at a security meeting to be held on Tuesday, and the crowd then headed towards the house of the deceased’s family, amid a fraught atmosphere and chants of anti-quick support.

In the face of constant public opinion pressure over a period of 7 days, the Rapid Support Forces announced yesterday, Sunday, that the head of its intelligence department and other officials were referred to the investigation and recognition of the death of the young man in one of the headquarters of the Rapid Support, who was taken to him on Wednesday, December 16, from a popular market in the southern suburb of El Kalakla. Khartoum, at the hands of people taking advantage of a car without license plates, after they asked him to accompany them, and he agreed without resistance.

With the absence of Nuri, 45, for more than a day, his sister had to inform the police before the family received a phone call on Monday stating that Bahaa al-Din had died and that his body was in a hospital morgue in Omdurman, according to a statement issued by the family of the deceased who refused to receive the body except After his autopsy, with the mediation of a professional and impartial medical committee, it noticed the effects of torture he had on his body.


According to the Sudanese government spokesman and Minister of Information Faisal Muhammad Saleh, the authorities agreed to re-autopsy, in the first official statement issued on Saturday, in which he said that the young man had indeed died inside a Rapid Support headquarters while he was under investigation.

Whenever the family of the martyr Bahaa El-Din decided to receive his body and perform his funeral, this funeral must be a message and a last warning.

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Public Prosecution Statement and


Sunday The Public Prosecution said - in a statement - that the death of Bahaa El Din was reported on December 20, and that the facts indicate that the young man died while he was in the health unit of the Rapid Support Forces.

The statement talked about the prosecution's questioning of a number of accusation witnesses, after restricting legal procedures under Article 51 of the Criminal Procedure Code, an article related to death under ambiguous circumstances, and then added that "the investigation procedures are still continuing and awaiting the autopsy report to determine the course of the case."

It is not known precisely the accusations against which the deceased was subjected to investigation, and his family says that he has no political inclinations and is working hard to earn his daily livelihood through his work in the field of electricity connections.

Meanwhile, the Sudanese Professionals Association, on Sunday, gave the military component in the government 15 days to announce reforms in the military and security system, chiefly the closure of the Rapid Support detention sites, and the gathering threatened to move the street.


A member of the assembly's secretariat, Ammar al-Baqer, said that arresting civilians by unknown or unauthorized parties is a crime of enforced disappearance, indicating that the government will be responsible for crimes of this kind if it does not take adequate measures to prevent them.

He added, "The death of civilians in detention centers is called extrajudicial killing by law."

The protesters demanded that the circumstances of the incident be revealed and those involved are brought to trial (Al-Jazeera Net)

Investigative powers


and cases of killing and torture of detainees in Sudan are increasingly raising public opinion, especially after the death of another citizen, whom the police accused of torturing him days ago, and activists say that these practices have returned the accusations that were directed against the Security and Intelligence Agency during the era of the former regime that was dissolved after the revolution that toppled The regime of President Omar al-Bashir on April 11, 2019.

However, the powers of the Security and Intelligence Service - his name was later transferred to the General Intelligence Service - especially the following: The powers of arrest and investigation in isolation from the police forces, were transferred to the Rapid Support Forces, but without any legal basis, but this was done by "laying hands", as identical sources say to Al-Jazeera Net.

Retired police officer Omar Othman confirms to Al-Jazeera Net that there is no legal text that gives rapid support the powers of arrest and reservation, but it has been extended in the absence of the police, the role of intelligence and the failure to form the internal security apparatus.

Other incidents,


hours after the revelation of Nuri's death, another crime related to the death of Izz al-Din Ali Hamed was revealed to the public opinion, after he was arrested by the police, whom activists accused of torturing him until he died after being transferred to a hospital.

In the face of the anger of the street and the sit-in of the people of the dead man, the Police Presidency said that the accused was released on bail on December 25, but his health condition deteriorated and he was transferred to the hospital where he passed away, and continued that “legal measures have been taken under Article 51 of the Criminal Procedure Law, and the body was transferred. To the morgue to find out the causes of death, as the medical report stated that the deceased was beaten.

The statement confirmed that legal procedures were restricted against Mabahith police under Article 130 of premeditated murder, and that the Public Prosecution conducted the investigation with them.

These two killings were not an exception, as accusations of rapid support were previously brought against the assassination of the young man, Muhammad Azraq, at the end of last August, after he was detained in a force camp, and he was beaten and then shot dead, and although the prosecution ordered the arrest of the perpetrators, this has not happened until now.

In addition, the police admitted earlier that a citizen was killed under torture by their members, and that they had arrested them for investigation, without anyone after that hearing his results.

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According to the Criminal Procedure Law of 1991, the principle of the arrest process is that it is ordered by the Public Prosecution or the judiciary, and the principle is that the police implement this order, as Mahmoud al-Sheikh, a member of the Sudanese Lawyers Alliance, told Al-Jazeera Net.

He points out that the law provided an exception in its provisions that entitles the executive authority to the right to arrest without a warrant issued by the prosecution or the judiciary, and instead of this authority being confined to the narrowest scope, the law granted it this right in the number of 92 crimes or more than 192 in the criminal law .

Under the name of this executive authority, several fronts can move to take advantage of this right.

Powers to lay hands


, and political analyst Alaa Eddin Bashir, a journalist and political analyst, confirms that the Rapid Support does not possess any powers of arrest, especially after it became public that it is under the command of the armed forces that do not investigate or arrest civilians except in cases of extreme suspicion and in the theaters of military operations.

Bashir says - to Al-Jazeera Net - that the rapid support extracted those powers "by laying hands" after vague circumstances in which internal, regional and international parties played an important role in changing the balance of power in the power center in the capital and some major cities during the revolution that ousted President Bashir and brought them in parallel With the regular police, but surpassed them in some details.

Alaeddin believes that the reason behind the control of these forces led by Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, "Hamidati", Vice President of the Sovereign Council, is "the fear of the internal, regional and international parties that managed the process of overthrowing the former president and his regime from a counter reaction to the former regime's brigades and their dormant military cells, in addition to the lack of Confidence in the other regular forces of the state. "