| No, really? We had no idea, absolutely no idea, until the Amnesty announcement. |
The London-based group in a report entitled "Agents of Fear" accused Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of perpetrating institutionalized human rights violations "for years."
"The NISS rules Sudan by fear. The extensive, multi-pronged assault on the Sudanese people by the security services has left the critics of the government in constant fear of arrest, harassment or worse" said Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty's Africa program director.