23.05.2007 - Source: Amnesty International

Khartoum: Scores of students beaten and reportedly taken to secret centres known as "ghost houses" ("Annual Report 2007") [ID 20087]

"In February scores of students from Juba University in Khartoum were beaten with batons by armed police and security services after they gathered to call for the university to be relocated to Juba. Some 51 were detained and, according to reports, taken to secret centres known as "ghost houses" where they were beaten, deprived of food and not allowed access to legal counsel or their families."

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20.04.2006 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

Many people disappear every year, possibly into ghost houses ("10th European Country of Origin Infomation Seminar Budapest, 1 - 2 December 2005: Final Report on Sudan") [#49770],  [ID 18922]

"The “ghost houses”, which are informal secret prisons, still do exist. [...] Many people disappear every year. They might disappear into the ghost houses and not survive the detention. Their fate is unknown."

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