African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
(26 February 2015) Just over a month before the scheduled General Elections on 2 April 2015, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have escalated restrictions on print media in Sudan. The restrictions are believed to be a tactic by the NISS to circumscribe the already restrictive space for the …
Read More »Sudan: Arrest of the President of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor (SHRM)
(7 December 2014) Paris-Geneva-Kampala. The Sudanese authorities must release immediately Dr. Amin Mekki Medani, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said today. The health and physical integrity of the human rights defender must be guaranteed …
Read More »Sudan’s Human Rights Crisis: Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee
(13 June 2014) Next month the United Nations Human Rights Committee will review Sudan’s progress implementing its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). The Committee will assess, amongst other things, Sudan’s compliance guaranteeing the right to life, the right to be free from torture and …
Read More »Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 25
The feature article of the Sudan Human Rights Monitor (SHRM) provides an analysis of recent government restrictions on the freedom of expression that have taken place concurrent to a call from the President for political opposition parties to engage in a national dialogue process to be led by the ruling …
Read More »Update: Censorship surge in Sudan by security services – papers prevented from distributing printed copies
(24 February 2014) On 20 February 2014, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) visited printing houses and issued a verbal order preventing the distribution of printed copies of three daily independent newspapers. Aakhir Lahza, Al Ehram Alyoum and Alwatan newspapers were each prevented from distributing printed copies of their …
Read More »Surge in censorship in Sudan by security services
(14 February 2014) The past month has seen a surge in government restrictions on the freedom of the media and freedom of expression in Sudan. Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have prevented the distribution of printed copies of four independent newspapers, and suspended their operation indefinitely. The NISS …
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