African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
Contact: Osman Hummaida, Executive Director Phone: +44 7956 095738 E-mail: osman@acjps.org (1 February 2011) Demonstrations organised by the “Youth of 30 January for Change Alliance”, a coalition of members of student movements such as Girifna, Nahoa Alshari, and Aid ala Aid and supported by the National Consensus Forces, a …
Read More »Update on Violations Committed in Blue Nile and Dalang, South Kordofan
Government Campaign to Silence Activists and Quash Demonstrations in Sudan October 2011
Continuing Violations of Human Rights in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States: 24 August – 8 September 2011
(October 2011) The success of South Sudan’s January 2011 referendum and the peaceful separation of the North and South contrasts sharply with renewed violence in two of Sudan’s contested “three areas,” Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. Recent patterns of violations in South Kordofan indicate that aerial assaults and arbitrary …
Read More »Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 14
(October-November 2011) The relationship between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) has grown increasingly tenuous following the secession of South Sudan on 9 July 2011. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) partners have failed to resolve a number of outstanding post-referendum issues including the status …
Read More »Sudanese Government Continues to Repress the Freedom of Expression
(29 September 2011) On 27 September 2011, officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) raided the Aljareeda newspaper offices in Khartoum. After ordering all employees to leave the premises, NISS officers posted guards at the main gates and locked the doors. Chief Editor Mr. Saad Aldeen Ibrahim and …
Read More »129 People Charged with Apostasy in South Khartoum: Maximum Sentence is the Death Penalty
(14 September 2011) On 29 July 2011, 150 people were arrested by police in Hay Mayo, South Khartoum. All are members of the Hausa ethnic group and from Darfur. While 21 individuals (children and the elderly) were immediately released, 129 were subsequently charged with apostasy, disturbance of the public peace, and being a …
Read More »Sudanese Poet and Civil Rights Activist Detained by Government Authorities in Blue Nile State
(13 September 2011) On 2 September, well-known Sudanese intellectual and activist Abdelmoniem Raham was arrested in Damazein, the capital city of Blue Nile state. His whereabouts are currently unknown. An active member of the Sudanese Writers Union during the 1980s and head of the Arabic section of the Sudan Radio …
Read More »Perceived SPLM-Northern Sector Supporters Arrested throughout Northern Sudan
(6 September 2011) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies has documented hundreds of incidents of arbitrary arrest on the basis of perceived political affiliation and membership to particular ethnic groups since conflict reignited in Northern Sudan’s contested South Kordofan state in early June. Similar incidents have occurred in …
Read More »Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 13
(August-September 2011) The conflicts in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, two of Sudan’s “three areas” that received special provisions under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), continue with no sign of resolution. There has been no visible progress made on establishing a forum for negotiations between the ruling Northern …
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