Following the takeover of Sudan’s second-largest city, Wad Madani, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, tens of thousands of residents fled and sought refuge in areas still governed by the army. Among them was Mohamad Osman, who was apprehended by military intelligence on December 27 while attempting to escape. After being brought to a covert prison facility, also known as a “ghost house” in Sudan, the army soon discovered that he was a part of the Kalakla resistance committee, one of several neighborhood organizations that led the pro-democracy movement prior to the war. Osman was electrocuted and made to watch seven corpses decompose on the cold concrete floor for five days. He was going to be the eighth player.