Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 19

(August-September 2012) The feature article of this issue of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor gives an overview of the agreement reached between Sudan and South Sudan on 27 September in Addis Ababa. The agreement addressed a host of outstanding post-referendum issues, such as oil sharing, nationality status, security and border demarcation. It came following months of stalled negotiations and rising tensions between the two states, and provided for the resumption of Southern Sudanese oil exportation through Sudanese pipelines. South Sudan had previously shut down oil production in late January following disputes over transit fees and accusations that Sudan was stealing its oil. The agreement also provided for withdrawal of both sides’ armies from the border, forming a twenty mile buffer zone. Conflict over disputed border areas and accusations of support to both states’ rebel groups continues. The two states failed to resolve the issue of Abyei.

This issue also provides an overview of an NCP-sponsored constitutional conference which was boycotted by the opposition National Consensus Forces, and anti-American demonstrations which took place outside the German, British, and American embassies on 14 September.

The monitoring report provides an overview of human rights violations documented by ACJPS between August and September 2012, including cases of arbitrary arrest, ill-treatment and torture, and extra-judicial killings as well as restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and media censorship. This issue provides in-depth testimonies from six individuals arbitrarily detained and subjected to ill-treatment and torture in connection with the anti-regime demonstrations which took place in Sudan between June and August. The monitoring report includes an update on the human rights and security situation in South Kordofan and Darfur.

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