Several legal advisors announced their defection from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), pledging full allegiance to the Sudanese Armed Forces in what they described as a decisive “battle for dignity.”
Speaking at the Sudan News Agency platform in Port Sudan on Sunday, the defectors revealed widespread violations committed by the RSF, including killings, looting, systemic corruption, and racial discrimination. They denounced the group as a destabilizing tool bent on undermining Sudan’s unity and resources, accusing it of attempting to impose a family-based government to divide the nation.
Human rights and international law consultant Mostafa Abdel Karim Abdel Rahman stated that Sudanese rights organizations had documented over 60 arbitrary detention centers in Khartoum, referred to as “death camps,” though the figure may be higher than 100. He said these facilities—often repurposed homes of displaced citizens—are controlled by RSF units and serve as sites of torture and abuse, with detainees held for weeks or months before being transferred to the notorious Riyadh prison complex.
He also reported dire conditions in Soba prison, where more than 1,000 detainees face life-threatening health crises due to outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis, coupled with severe shortages of food and medicine. According to him, the RSF eventually closed the prison as a result.
Abdel Rahman noted that the total number of detainees remains difficult to track, as new arrests occur daily. He confirmed that 317 elderly prisoners over the age of 70 are among the inmates, many suffering from chronic illnesses, alongside minors under the age of 15 being held with adults.
