The Honorable (full name)
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
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Subject: Gross Human Rights Violations in Sudan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear Senator (or Representative) last name:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am writing to you regarding the deeply concerning human rights situation in Sudan. More than 40 people are reported to have been killed since the wave of protests against the government was started on December 19, 2018 in many cities around Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nI am primarily concerned about the violent\nsuppression by Sudanese Government forces of citizens\u2019 rights to peaceful\nassembly and protest. These forces, including Intelligence Service, Police, and\nArmy, have brutally beaten peaceful protestors with sticks and batons, fired\ntear gas, and used live ammunition to disperse protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to\nSudanese interior minister, Mr. Ahmed Bilal Osman, over 800 hundred protesters\nare in custody. Those activists remain detained incommunicado, and among them\nmore than 50 Darfuri university students mainly targeted; concerns about their\nsafety are rising among their families, neighborhoods, and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many credible human rights reports documented\nthat government forces have attacked civilians in west and south regions of\nSudan, specifically in Darfur, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile on several\noccasions during the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am deeply\nconcerned by the ongoing widespread and gross human rights violations and\nabuses, and arbitrary detention by Sudanese authorities of peaceful\ndemonstrators, civil society party members, and activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nTherefore, I urge the US Congress to call on the\nSudanese Government to immediately stop their atrocities and violent crackdown\non these peaceful protests, stop their unjustified, arbitrary arrests of\npeaceful demonstrators, and release all political detainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nThank you for your consideration of this\nhumanitarian matter to call on the Sudanese authorities to stop their violation\nof human rights and using forces on demonstrators who are peacefully expressing\ntheir rights to speak out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSincerely,
\n(Sign your name here)
\n
\nYour name,
\nAddress:
\nPhone Number:
\nE-mail Address:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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