Tag Archives: Arbitrary Arrest

(February-March 2012) The feature article of this issue provides an overview of the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan. On 14 March the Governments of Sudan and South Sudan achieved a breakthrough in the negotiations on future economic, security and social relationships between the two countries that had been ongoing …

(23 March 2012) In two different cases the week of 12 March, the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested two people, one of whom died while in police custody.  The disparate nature of these incidents illustrates the latitude that the NISS has been given under the 2010 National Security …

On 25 January 2012, five members of Grifina, a non-violent youth led resistance movement, were arrested in Sudan.  These arrests give evidence of a government campaign targeting youth activists.      The five activists participated in a forum organized by Grifina to commemorate the 2005 Beja massacre at Port Sudan, …