Egyptian and British authorities kept Ali abd al-Latif confined until death

Evidence

Alï abd al-Latïf remained in different prisons in the south of the Sudan, far from his family and under harsh conditions, for over twelve years, until the prime minister of Egypt, Nahhas Pasha, appealed to the British to free him and let him live in Egypt. The British administration agreed to send him to Egypt, but under very strict conditions: the prisoner was removed in secret from the Sudan and had to be received with great discretion in Cairo. Once in Egypt, he was not free but instead had to be housed in a military hospital, where he could be observed at all times. He was soon placed in the Abbasïya Hospital for Mental Diseases, where the many Egyptian and Sudanese dignitaries who came to visit him left impressed with his mental faculties. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1057

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on how colonial powers medicalized and pathologized political dissenters, linking to reader’s interest in colonial tools used in Sudan specifically.