اغتيال محمد عبد السلام، اقوال الجبهة الديمقراطية

Quote: 136. Mohamed Abdesalam Babiker, a fourth-year law student and a member of the Democratic Front was reportedly arrested on 4 August 1998 by units of the Popular Defence Forces and the Forces for the Defence of Belief and the State. He died under torture. The autopsy performed on his body showed that he had suffered a brain haemorrhage resulting from repeated beatings to the head. The security agents who had arrested him were identified as Ammar Bashari, Ramadan Musa Dirar and Ammar Mubarak. The torture was allegedly supervised by an officer identified as Abdelgaffar el-Sharif. The Special Rapporteur sent a request to the Sudanese authorities that they inquire into allegations of harassment of Mohamed Abdesalam's family. Security officers allegedly visited the family on several occasions to try and persuade them to drop a legal action that they had brought to investigate the student's death. In a letter dated 15 January 1999, the Permanent Representative of the Sudan to the United Nations, Dr. Ibrahim Mirghani, conveyed to the Special Rapporteur information given to him by the Advisory Council for Human Rights. He informed the Special Rapporteur that a body identified as that of Mohammed Abdel Salam Babiker was discovered on 4 August 1998. Following the discovery, and after inquiries, a case of suspected murder was opened in accordance with article 130 of the Sudanese Criminal Act of 1991 against unknown culprit(s). The letter, however, did not deal with the subject of the Special Rapporteur's request, which was the harassment of Babiker's family.