'Waited For Death': Ex-detainees Recount Horrors Of Sudan's RSF Prisons

Fuente: International Business Times

Held for months by Sudanes paramilitaries, Egyptian merchant Emad Mouawad recalls abuse and harsh conditions AFP For almost two years, Emad Mouawad had been repeatedly shuttled from one Sudanese paramilitary-run detention centre to another, terrified each day would be his last. The 44-year-old Egyptian merchant spent years selling home appliances in neighbouring Sudan before fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed his Khartoum home in June 2023, taking him and six others into custody. "They accused us of being Egyptian spies," he told AFP, back home in Kafr Abu Shanab, a quiet village in Egypt's Fayoum governorate southwest of Cairo.