Thread about Mohammad Adam, better known as Tupac, is a 17-year-old activist who was detained on 15 January and falsely accused of killing Brigadier General Ali Bareema Hamad. #SudanCoup #الردة_مستحيلة @UNHumanRights @BBCWorld @antonioguterres
P1: He was arrested at Royal Care Hospital, where he sought medical treatment for a wound sustained during the 13 January demonstrations, when thousands took to the streets to protest the #military_coup.
P2: News of horrific torture reminiscent of the Bashir regime surfaced shortly after Tupac's arrest. Ayin Network interviewed Tupac’s parents Nidal and Adam Yagoub, and his legal team led by Rana Abdel Ghaffar.
P3: They recounted how, after long bureaucratic hurdles and outright hostility they finally managed to locate and see Tupac in the infamous Kobar Prison. Tupac told them that four nails were driven into his feet.
P4: He said he was forced to stand on the same leg that had sustained the earlier injury on 13 January. They tied him upside down and his wounded, swollen neck was too tender to stand his mother's touch. His need for medicine for high blood pressure has thus far been ignored.
P5: Tupac pointed at the officials in the room and said, ‘They tortured me.’
According to Rana Abdel Ghaffar, the aim of the torture was to have him confess to the murder of General Hamad.
According to Rana Abdel Ghaffar, the aim of the torture was to have him confess to the murder of General Hamad.
P6: She tells Ayin that Hamad's death was used as a pretext to commit a massacre on 13 January and arrest close to twenty protestors. According to Ghaffar, this is a method that was used in the past. “I hold the attorney generals completely responsible,’ she says.
P7: Tupac's arrest follows a trend of security forces arbitrarily detaining protestors, human rights defenders, leaders of resistance committees, civil society activists, journalists, and humanitarian workers.
P8: ‘Tupac is 17 years old, which means he is one of those at the forefront of this revolution,’ says Nidal, Tupac’s mother. ‘These young people want change. They want a different government. They want freedom, education, healthcare. This is why they’re on the street.’
P9: In a voice note sent from prison and shared by his friends, Tupac tells his fellow protestors to remain defiant, to remember the martyrs and stand strong in the face of arrests and murder.
P10: More information:
Watch the Ayin Network interview with Tupac’s family and legal team: youtu.be
Watch the Ayin Network interview with Tupac’s family and legal team: youtu.be
P11: Read about the protest of 13 January: aljazeera.com
P12: Listen to Tupac’s message to protestors: facebook.com
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