After the fall of El Fasher, the Rapid Support Forces turned arbitrary detention into a criminal enterprise targeting thousands of civilians.
On 26 October 2025, El Fasher, the last state capital in Darfur not under RSF control fell after more than 500 days of siege. As tens of thousands of civilians fled, RSF forces were waiting at checkpoints and on rural roads. Those who were caught did not disappear into chaos. They disappeared into a system.
The Darfur Network for Human Rights today publishes “We Could Not Breathe Inside Those Containers” a report documenting arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence, forced labor, and systematic extortion carried out by the Rapid Support Forces against civilians in North Darfur between May and December 2025. Based on secure remote interviews with 12 survivors and corroborated with satellite imagery, it is the most detailed account yet of what happened inside RSF detention facilities after El Fasher fell. <…>
https://dnhr.org/2026/03/31/rsf-detention-torture-north-darfur-report/