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Amira Osman Hamid

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I graduated from the college of technical sciences,

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in computer engineering

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I’m doing an M.A. in international relations

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at Khartoum University

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I was detained on June 27 at 6 p.m.

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About 4 security pickup trucks, a mini-bus

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and two saloon cars came to my house

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they asked from the outside that I come out for them

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I was in the bathroom

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When I came in they had entered the house

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About 15 to 20 security persons

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they told me to go out to meet their lieutenant

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when I went out I didn’t find a lieutenant

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but there was a mini-bus filled with about 12 persons

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who were guests in the house, neighbours,

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the laborers working in the house

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and anyone just passing by

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approximately it was about 12 persons

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they took us to street 57 in Amarat

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this was until midnight approximately

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after that they took us to Shendi

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the bad and terrible treatment was in street 57

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where they threatened me

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to take off my clothes and bring my brother

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if I don’t answer all their questions

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I did not react to that and they did not insist on that a lot

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they hit me in street 57

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after that there wasn’t any beating,

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but there was a new form of torture

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they put us in a parking lot in Bahari

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we were there for 2 full days

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facing the wall with no sleep and no lying down

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until one of the soldiers felt sorry for us and got us canvas bags to sit on

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they made us sit on uncomfortable chairs

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this was during the first day and all of the second day

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at the end of the second day in “respect to the Muslim woman”

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they took us to an office and we sat there, because they don’t “degrade women”

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after having thrown us in a parking lot for two days

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it’s something that gives you a feeling that you are a stray dog

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after that they took us to the prison

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in the prison in Bahari

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the new form of torture is the psychological torture

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now they stopped the physical torture

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and I see that one can overcome physical torture if one is ready for it mentally

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but this psychological torture is a new strategy or idea

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that they are now working with

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so people should be aware of that

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the one thing I got out of this detention with

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is that it is a fear barrier that has broken

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it does not mean that I want to be detained again

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but it is just a fact

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what I say is that the regime is going to fall

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and things will go as people want them to go

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people should not give up

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but make use of the residue of experiences

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know where and how they have made mistakes

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and try to improve on those mistakes for the next times

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and for sure there is going to be next times