cc. Dated 19 December 2008 and originally widely published in Arabic following his arrest and torture, Monim Elgak’s letter to Salah Abdullah, the director general of the Sudanese Security and Intelligence service, suggests that his own gross mistreatment while detained is nothing when compared with Sudan at large. Offering a crushing indictment of the Sudanese regime’s oppressive policies and blatant disdain for human rights and freedom of expression, the author writes that redress for his own experiences will only come through the implementation of a restorative package of reforms on the back of sustained political will.