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(26 June 2015) On the international day in support of torture survivors, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls on the Government of Sudan to take necessary steps to end its use of torture, including by reforming Sudanese laws to bring them in line with international standards …

(8 July 2014) On the night of 22 June police in the Almolazmeen area of Khartoum’s twin city Omdurman arrested 40 individuals of Nuba ethnicity, beating those arrested and using racist and discriminatory language against them. According to eye-witness accounts, at least 40 police were deployed to the area and …

(27 June 2014) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls on the government of Sudan to uphold the right to a fair trial before the criminal courts after documenting a surge in the number of arrests of women by the public order police for the sale of …

(8 November 2012) The Government of Sudan must immediately investigate the arbitrary detention and torture of freelance Sudanese journalist Somia Ismail Ibrahim Hendusa, who was found abandoned and in extremely poor health on a Khartoum street on 2 November following her arrest by Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) …