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International pressure on northern Sudan needed for democratic transition
(21 February 2011) More than a dozen civil society organizations called today on President Obama of the United States and Foreign Secretary Hague of the United Kingdom to press northern Sudan to undertake concrete legal and institutional reforms designed to ensure a smooth transition to democracy in the post-referendum north and south Sudan.
Read the letter to President Obama here
Read the letter to Foreign Secretary Hague here
Peace and Security Council should protect the right to a nationality in Sudan
(Addis Ababa, 28 January 2011) More than two dozen civil society organisations called today
on the AU’s Peace and Security Council to ensure that the rights of all Sudan’s existing
citizens to a nationality are fully protected following the probable secession of South Sudan.
The PSC has been following the implementation of the Sudan Comprehensive Peace
Agreement, which provided for the referendum on independence of South Sudan.
Read full press release here
Read submission to the PSC here
8 January 2011
Deteriorating situation in Darfur of great concern warn NGOs
(8 January 2011) A coalition of human rights and advocacy NGOs has today warned of rising levels of violence in Darfur during and after the referendum on southern self-determination, scheduled to begin tomorrow. The coalition, including Human Rights Watch, African Centre for Peace and Justice Studies and The Enough Project has urged the UN Security Council to insist on regular public reports on the humanitarian and human rights situation in Darfur and throughout Sudan in order to adequately monitor the situation on the ground.
Read full press release here
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22 December
Human Rights First Calls for Release of Unjustly Jailed Sudanese Human Rights Defender
New York, NY – Human Rights First today called for the release of leading Sudanese human rights defender Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, who was jailed in Khartoum on Dec.22, 2010 based on apparently fabricated charges. According to the group, a judge reversed Mudawi’s previous acquittal on charges of financial mismanagement, even though no new evidence was presented to the court. The judge then sentenced Mudawi to one year of imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 Sudanese pounds.
Read the full statement here.
14 December 2010
African Center for Justice and Peace Studies
Two Fur Women Researching Darfur Face Capital Charges in Nyala
On 5 December, police in Nyala, South Darfur, arrested Fatima Mohamed Alhassan, a 39- year old member of the Fur tribe and employee of the tourism authority of Nyala. Two days later, Ms. Alhassan’s relative and roommate, Fatima Adam Ibrahim, was arrested. Ms. Ibrahim is a 36-year old member of the Fur tribe, and works for the meteorological service in Nyala. Both women were taken to the Central Police Station in Nyala and charged by the Military Intelligence of South Darfur in Case no. 4684 under Articles 50 (undermining the constitutional system) and 51 (waging war against the state) of the 1991 Sudanese Criminal Code. Articles 50 and 51 are both punishable by death, life imprisonment, or a lesser penalty. Convicted individuals may also be subject to forfeiture of property.
Read the full press release here
December 2010
Implication du Gouvernement Sénégalais au Soudan
Senegal,
Darfur Consortium's West Africa focal point Kotch Edition n°330
Read article here
8 December 2010
African Center for Justice and peace Studies
Widening the Scope: The Expanding Use of Capital Punishment
in Law and Practice in Sudan
The report is based on the increased usage of the death penalty legally and in practice in the context of the historical development of law in Sudan. It also offers an overview of the role of the death penalty in Sudanese law, recent cases, and the rights and guarantees to which individuals accused of offences punishable by the death penalty are entitled. The African Centre believes that its current usage has significantly widened in scope, and has disturbing political and ethnic undertones, highlights Sudan's lack of respect for its international commitments, and allows for children to be executed. Lack of fair trial guarantees and the admission of evidence obtained through torture further exacerbates usage of the death penalty.
Read the full report here
1 December 2010
African Center for Justice and Peace Studies
Urgent International Pressure Needed to Ensure
Equitable
Registration Process
Registration for Southern Sudanese voting in the long-awaited referendum on self determination began on 15 November. Scheduled to conclude on 1 December, registration was extended to the 8. Despite wide registrant turnout in the South, many of the elements that undermined the campaigning period and national elections in April 2010 are already present. This is particularly troubling given the short time between registration and voting for the referendum.
Read the full press release here
1 November 2010
African Center for Justice and Peace Studies
Darfuri Human Rights Defenders Arrested in Khartoum
Between 4 and 4:30 PM on 30 October, six Darfuri human rights defenders disappeared in Khartoum. It was confirmed on 31 October that all six individuals had been arrested, though no charges have been pressed. Some of the members of the group had just attended a youth forum on social development hosted by Girifna, a pro-democracy student movement.
Read the full press release here
27 October 2010
African Center for Justice and Peace Studies
Special Courts in Darfur Sentence Nine Individuals,
including Four Children, to Death
On 21 October, Judge Shegifa Ali Eshag of the Special Court in Nyala, South Darfur, sentenced a group of nine individuals allegedly affiliated with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death for a carjacking in Khour Baskawit, near Selia and Yaseen in South Darfur on 13 May 2010. Four members of the group are under the age of 18. The group was convicted under Articles 50 (offences against the state), 51 (fomenting war against the state), 168 (armed robbery), and 182 (criminal damage) under the Sudanese Penal Code of 1991.
Read the full press release here |
