Amnesty International has announced that the six members of the student-led movement Girifna who were arrested at the end of January have been released from Kober prison in Khartoum.
Amar Dirar, Nagi Musa, Gazi Eltayeb, Mohamed Mahjoub, Sharif Kamal and Omar Hamid were arrested by National Intelligence and Security Service agents on January 25 after taking part in a public forum organized by Girifna, the “we’re fed up movement”, in Omdurman, Sudan.The event was held to commemorate the 2005 Beja massacre at Port Sudan and to discuss the human rights situation in eastern Sudan.
On January 29 the six activists were transferred to Kober prison, in Khartoum, where they remaind for almost two weeks without charge or access to lawyers or their families.