Tag Archives: Freedom of Expression

(15 June 2017) Three activists from Eidel Firsan locality in South Darfur are currently detained incommunicado by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) without charge or access to their families. A lawyer contracted by the activists’ families has expressed concern for their safety and well-being, and vulnerability to torture …

(23 May 2017) Demonstrations led by students on university campuses continue to be dispersed violently by Sudanese authorities. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) remains extremely concerned about the excessive use of force by security forces to disperse student gatherings within the month of May. ACJPS has documented …

(19 May 2017) In May, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) documented two separate incidents of excessive use of force by Sudanese forces, and in one instance, an affiliated student militia, directed at University students. Police raided a student residence at Bakht Alrida University in White Nile …

(12 May 2017) On 7 May 2107, Sudan’s Press and Publications Council convicted and sentenced Madiha Abdalla, (f), editor in chief of Al Midan newspaper, to a fine of 10,000 Sudanese pounds (approximately $1,500) after convicting her under articles 159 (defamation) and 66 (dissemination of false news) of the 1991 …

(31 March 2017) Freedom of religion and belief continues to come under fire by the Government of Sudan, despite constitutional guarantees included in the 2005 Interim National Constitution (INC) and the country’s regional and international human rights commitments. Faith communities and their places of worship are often subjected to harassment …

(16 January 2017) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is currently aware of seventeen detainees currently held incommunicado by the Government of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). In particular, there are serious concerns regarding the well-being and treatment of human rights defender Tasneem Ahmed Taha …

(15 December 2016) The Government of Sudan has responded to a growing civil disobedience campaign by arresting and detaining incommunicado at least forty two political opposition party leaders, activists, and individuals, including one prominent human rights defender, Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, and censoring newspapers by seizing their print editions prior …

To: United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms Agnes Callamard; Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr David Kaye; Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, …

(1 December 2016) At least 17 members of the political opposition Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) are currently detained without charge and access to their families and lawyers at National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) offices near Shande Bus Station in Khartoum. The detained SCP members were all arrested from 4 …

The following is a joint press release from the Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment & Human Development (KACE), African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, the Darfur Bar Association, the International Refugee Rights Initiative, Sudan Consortium, the Sudan Democracy First Group, and the Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO) UK. To read …