{{The arrest of Sudan’s former prime minister and leading opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi undermines talks aimed at finding a way out of the country’s multiple crises, observers said on Sunday}}.<\/p>\n
Mahdi was arrested for alleged treason by agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) from his home on Saturday night, officials of his Umma Party said.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors questioned him on Sunday at the Khartoum-area Kober Prison where he is being held, Umma’s secretary general Sara Najdallah, told reporters.<\/p>\n
The arrest came after Mahdi reportedly accused a counter-insurgency unit, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), of rape and other abuses of civilians in Darfur.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply concerned. This isn’t the way to do national dialogue,” a British embassy spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Magdi El Gizouli, a fellow at the Rift Valley Institute, said Mahdi’s detention reflects a power play by elements of the state security service who “don’t care” about the impact on the dialogue initiated by President Omar al-Bashir.<\/p>\n
“The political system in Sudan is the rule of the military and the security,” Gizouli told reporters<\/p>\n
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