Abubakr Mansour Abdela
Abubakr Mansour Abdela is a Sudanese lawyer and human rights defender who provides legal assistance and support to his community. After the eruption of war in Sudan in 2023, he stayed in his home town and provided humanitarian support by distributing free medicine from his brother’s pharmaceutical company. Throughout his career, Abubakr Mansour Abdela has been resisting the Islamic Movement and opposing he war in Sudan. The Sudanese Armed Forces retaliated by accusing him of collaborating with the Rapid Support Forces.
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.
