Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi

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Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi

In 2002: "Mohamed Ibrahim Elgadi is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Center for International Education). Mohamed is a community activist in the areas of human rights and is an active member of Amnesty International (Amherst) and the Group Against Torture in Sudan (Philadelphia). He has spoken at a number of events held in New England area within the AI global campaign to stop torture and is also an environmental activist with a focus on MA and Sudan. His current ongoing dissertation project "Evaluation of the Oppressed" is focused on developing alternative research techniques based on number of covert methods used in his human rights work in Sudan." [1]

In 2005: "Mohamed Ibrahim, who had been active in the struggle for civil liberties under the radical fundamentalist Islamist dictatorship that seized control of Sudan's democratically elected government in 1989 and that is still in power. Tortured by Sudanese authorities, Mohamed Ibrahim had fled the country and eventually came to the United States, where he worked with other torture survivors. Today he is a U.S. citizen, working for American Friends Service Committee on refugee and immigration issues. I heard about him through Amnesty International." [2]

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