Journalists’ Union accuses Al-Dagalo militia of liquidating its member Yahya Fadlallah

The Sudanese Journalists’ Union (SJU) accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia of liquidating the journalist Dr. Yahya Hammad Fadlallah, a SJU member and advisor to the National Radio and Television Corporation.

 

While condemning the extrajudicial killings that the terrorist militia has been accustomed to, the union revealed that it had lost 8 journalists during the past months at the hands of the militia.

 

The SJU Executive Bureau said, in a statement received by (Sudanese Echoes), that Yahya Hammad, a former officer in the Sudanese Armed Forces who retired from military service with the rank of major, had remained in his home in Al-Ezba District in Bahri since the outbreak of the war on April 15, 2023, which is one of the areas controlled by the militia, a matter that increases suspicions that he was liquidated by the militia due to his previous affiliation with the armed forces.

 

The SJU explained that it had been following with concern the circumstances of Yahya Hammad’s death since information circulated on social media platforms and statements issued by illegal union fronts and biased civil society organizations that he died in Al-Naw Hospital as a result of torture by military intelligence.

 

The statement said that his family published on social media, on the authority of one of his sons, that he died a natural death without mentioning other circumstances, torture, or reference to Al-Naw Hospital.

 

The SJU stated that it had visited Al-Naw Hospital and confirmed that the hospital’s records did not contain any patients or deaths in the name of Yahya Hammad Fadlallah.