KHARTOUM: Sudan’s state security yesterday arrested opposition leader and ex-premier Sadiq Al Mahdi after he reportedly accused a counter-insurgency unit of rape and other abuses of civilians in Darfur.
“At 8.45 pm a number of state security officers came to the home of imam Sadiq Al Mahdi with a warrant, and they arrested him,” his secretary, Mohammed Zaki, said.
The National Intelligence and Security Service has the right to detain people for more than four months without judicial review.
Saudi MERS toll at 163
RIYADH: Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the country to 163.
The health ministry website also revealed yesterday that 520 cases have been recorded in the country since MERS first appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
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