Egyptian merchants Mohamed Shabaan and Emad Mouawad recount the horrors of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces' prisons in Sudan after the RSF arrested them and put them in detention centres for 20 months. The paramilitary group, locked in a brutal war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, has accused Egypt of military involvement in the war, a claim Cairo denies.
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00:00We spent 11 months in this detention center.
00:11We were humiliated, tortured, and transferred from cell to cell.
00:19We were humiliated in the food, in the water, in the bathroom.
00:27Out of all the humiliation, we saw it.
00:32The detainees were tortured and burned in the cell.
00:39They were tortured and burned, and tortured, and tortured, and tortured.
00:48We were assaulted by people who abused and insulted us in Egypt.
01:00You are experts, you are pilots, you are terrorists, you don't know anything.
01:06We don't want them to blame us.
01:16Is that it?
01:18I want to say that 80% of the detainees in the support prisons were citizens.
01:38I haven't seen any prisoners of war.
01:44During the 20 months I spent in the support prisons, I haven't seen any soldiers brought back from battle.
02:08God is great.
02:10Our citizens are detainees and they are defending us with the fast support.
02:14Say hello to them, Burhan.
02:18I appeal to the whole world, I appeal to human rights, I appeal to the international community,
02:23that the fast support militia is more dangerous than ISIS and any terrorist organization in the world.
02:28These people are really dangerous, even against the neighboring countries.
02:35These people should be held accountable for their actions in Sudan.
02:39I appeal to the international community, that the fast support militia is more dangerous than ISIS and any terrorist organization in the world.