ACJPS calls to investigate the enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing of Wad Akair in Khartoum

    ACJPS  calls to investigate the enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing of Wad Akair in Khartoum     Sudanese authorities should urgently investigate the reported abduction, torture, and extra-judicial killing of Mr. Mohamed Ismail Abaker, popularly known as “Wad Akair”, a youth activist and a member of a resistance committee in Al-Jeraif Sharq neighborhood in Khartoum.    Mr. Wad Akair had been participating in a sit-in in front of Altamayouz hospital. The sit-in was organised to protest the decomposition of bodies at the hospital mortuary. The inconsistent power supply affected the refrigeration at the mortuary and as a result strong foul smells emitted from the decomposing bodies. In response several activists organised a sit-in at the hospital and demanded that the authorities identify the bodies held in the morgue.   According to reliable sources, Mr. Wad Akair was last seen at the sit-in on 3 April 2021. On 4 April 2021, the family of Mr Wad Akair reported his disappearance to the Al-Jeraif Sharq police station, case number 120 /2021, indicating that Mr. Wad Akair went missing on 3 April 2021 and his whereabouts are unknown.