Eritreans, Ethiopians detainees face torture, deportation in Sudan
AFRO-O - January 11, 2008
Sudan Organization Against Torture (SOAT), a rights watchdog based in London, said alarmed by the situation of Eritrean and Ethiopian nationals detained without trial in Sudan after they escaped from their country to avoid military service.
In July 2007, Amnesty International reported that hundreds of Eritrean nationals had been arrested in Sudan following the rapprochement between the governments of Addis Ababa, Asmara and Khartoum.

SOAT said aware of the case of four Eritreans and five Ethiopian currently being held by the security forces in Sudanese prisons without charge or trial. Further the rights group said they face risk of forcibly return to their countries where they risk torture and other human rights violations.
The Eritreans are arrested in Port Sudan Prison since November 2, 2007 after evading compulsory military service at home. While the Ethiopians are detained in Khartoum since last July after being arrested from their homes.
They were arrested on or around November 2, 2007 at the Sudanese border and are being held without charge under the National Security Forces Act of 1999 in Port Sudan State Prison.
SOAT further said that Sudanese authorities denied its lawyers to have access to the detainees ...