{"id":247920,"date":"2026-10-23T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-rights-group-warns-of-torture-fears-after-arrests-in-blue-nile\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:00:12","slug":"sudanese-rights-group-warns-of-torture-fears-after-arrests-in-blue-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-rights-group-warns-of-torture-fears-after-arrests-in-blue-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Rights Group Warns of Torture Fears After Arrests in Blue Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Roseires, Blue Nile State \u2014 <em>The Human Rights and Development Organisation (<a href=\"https:\/\/hudocentre.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HUDO Centre<\/a>) says detainees arrested in Roseires are being denied access to lawyers and relatives amid a widening security crackdown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">At least eight civilians have been arrested in Roseires in Sudan&#8217;s Blue Nile state, by the Joint Security Cell (JSC) and are being held without access to lawyers or family members, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-JSC-carried-out-arrest-operations-in-Roseries.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> by the Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO Centre) this week, which fears&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roseires, Blue Nile State \u2014 The Human Rights and Development Organisation (HUDO Centre) says detainees arrested in Roseires are being denied access to lawyers and relatives amid a widening security crackdown. At least eight civilians have been arrested in Roseires in Sudan&#8217;s Blue Nile state, by the Joint Security Cell (JSC) and are being held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7845,8473,5140,5192,257,4162,5100,254,1613,7296,265,6853],"class_list":["post-247920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrests","tag-blue","tag-fears","tag-group","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-torture","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}