Urgent Action: Free Sudan political detainees and stop harassing human rights defenders, May 7, 2016 – PDFAn unprecedented incident occurred on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at about three o’clock in the afternoon in Khartoum capital city of Sudan. The Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) raided the office of Mr. Nabeel Adeeb, a leading Sudanese human rights lawyer and defender. Mr. Adeeb was meeting with a group of students who had been dismissed from the University of Khartoum. The raid was characterized by the use of excessive force, and at least 11 students were arrested. The students are seeking legal aid from Mr. Adeeb’s office to challenge the administration’s decision of University of Khartoum to dismiss them. The grounds for the dismissal decision where based the involvement of students in protests against the plan to sell the University of Khartoum historical campus and the brutal killing of Abubakar Hassan Mohamed Taha, a first year engineering student at the University of Kordofan.
Sudan Human Rights Network
الشبكة السودانية لحقوق الإنسان
Open letter from 39 Sudanese NGOs and individuals concerning excessive use of force by Sudanese authorities
Open letter from 39 Sudanese NGOs and individuals concerning excessive use of force by Sudanese authorities
May 3, 2016
To: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR)
ACHPR Commissioner on the Human Rights Situation in Sudan, Mr. Lawrence Mute
Government of Sudan
UN Human Rights Council
UN Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Sudan, Mr. Aristide Nononsi
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Maina Kiai
cc: African Union Peace and Security Council
UN Security Council
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