Two National Congress Party officials told Reuters that Sudan’s army detained Ahmed Haroun, chairman of the former ruling party and a prominent International Criminal Court fugitive over Darfur atrocities.
Two defence lawyers separately told AP that military authorities detained him on Sunday in eastern Kassala state and that his subsequent whereabouts were unknown.
They requested anonymity because they were not authorised to brief the media , There was no immediate army or ICC comment explaining the move or its reasons, The reported detention does not establish a surrender to the court or a decision to transfer him to The Hague.
The ICC lists 20 counts of crimes against humanity and 22 counts of war crimes against Haroun, not genocide. He rejects the allegations as political.
In a televised interview on Saturday, he said the NCP and army might differ politically but were united in fighting the Rapid Support Forces. The party is rooted in the Islamist movement dominant under Omar al-Bashir .
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