Two years later, relatives still await inquest on man captured at mosque

A photo of Hemed Salim Hemed after he had been seized by Police Officers inside Masjid Musa on 2nd February 2014. He has not been seen since. Photo/Courtesy

Sada Suleiman does not know whether to declare herself a widow, more than two years after the mystery disappearance of her husband Hemed Salim Hemed on February 2, 2014. Last week, she joined hundreds of rights activists and lawyers that picketed at the Urban Police Station to protest the matter of missing people and extra-judicial killings blamed on police.

Hemed’s case is one of the few where the police acknowledged arresting a man later disappeared in their hands. Hemed was arrested when police stormed Musa Mosque to end a convention outlawed by the State. Seven youths, including the Muezzin and a Rwandese Muslim were killed in a hail of police bullets.