Al-Fadil Ismail
Al-Fadil Ismail Adam Abdelbari, known as “Awfy,” is a human rights defender, volunteer with the Emergency Response Room in Zalingei (Kanjomiyya neighbourhood), Central Darfur, and a member of the Zalingei Resistance Committees Coordinating Body. A graduate of El Geneina University’s Faculty of Economics, Al-Fadil is widely recognised in his community for his humanitarian and voluntary work.
The ongoing violence by government forces, pro-government militia groups and anti-government armed group forms the backdrop to continued harassment, arbitrary arrests, incommunicado detentions and alleged torture of human rights defenders (HRDs) by Sudanese military and security forces. Freedom of expression and freedom of association and assembly have been increasingly curtailed. In particular, NGO members, journalists and student activists have been targeted.
