Human Rights Watch voiced concern on Tuesday at mass arrests in Khartoum after an attack on Sudan's capital by Darfur rebels and said it feared some people had been tortured or killed.
Authorities were shaken by the attack, the first time fighting had reached the capital in decades of conflict between the traditionally Arab-dominated central government and rebels from far-flung regions in the oil-producing country.
New York-based Human Rights Watch urged the government to quickly try or release those arrested in the aftermath.
"The whereabouts of the majority of those arrested are unknown," it said in a statement.
"Human Rights Watch received unconfirmed reports that some of those arrested have been tortured and that at least two people have been summarily executed in public."
The SUNA state news agency said at least 300 people had been arrested by Sunday, but many more have been arrested since.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said all those connected to the attack by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) would get a fair trial. Darfur rebels took up arms in 2003 complaining of discrimination against the largely non-Arab region.
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