On 19 June 2016, after a month and a half of incommunicado detention, Sudanese students Mai Adil Ibrahim Mohamed and Wifag Mohamed Gourashi Al Tayib were released by the authorities. They had been arrested on 5 May 2016 by officers of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), while gathering at Lawyer Nabil Adib's law firm in Khartoum.

On 29 May 2016, after more than one month in detention, Mohamed Faroug Suliman Mahmoud and Murtada Ibrahim Idriss Habani, two senior members of Sudanese opposition parties, were finally released by the authorities. They had been arrested by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on 23 April 2016 after having joined a peaceful demonstration that took place at the University of Kordofan.

On 5 May 2016, several students, amongst which 25-year-old Wifag Mohamed Gourashi Al Tayib, were abducted by officers of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), as they were meeting a lawyer after they were expelled from Khartoum University in reprisals for their participation to peaceful demonstrations. Contacted by her family who had not heard from her since, on 25 May, Alkarama and the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS) wrote to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in the hope that it will help shed light on her whereabouts.

The situation in Sudan's university campuses continues to be a cause of concern for Alkarama which documented together with the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS), new cases of human rights violations against students, in reprisal against their participations to peaceful demonstrations. On 5 May 2016, several students, including Badr Eldin Mohamed Abdulrahman and Mai Adil Ibrahim Mohamed, were arrested by plainclothes National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officers while they were in Mr Nabil Adib's law firm in Khartoum.