Tag Archives: Students

(18 January 2018) The African Centre of Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is concerned for the safety and well-being of students from Aldalang University in South Kordofan who have been arbitrarily arrested after joint security forces (National Intelligence and Security Services, Military Intelligence, Sudan Armed Forces and Police)  raided the …

(8 January 2018) The Government of Sudan must condemn in the strongest terms the excessive use of force by its police and security forces in El Geneina, West Darfur on Sunday 7 January and conduct an immediate independent and impartial investigation into the death of one student and injury of …

(7 January 2018) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is seriously concerned for the safety of a Darfurian student who has been detained incommunicado and without charge for two weeks by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Khartoum. No reasons were given for his arrest …

(6 December 2017) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies has serious concerns about the physical and psychological well-being of two students who were reportedly subjected to torture by the National Intelligence and Security Services in Babanoosa city, West Kordofan state, whilst in detention from 27-28 November 2017. Sudanese authorities …

(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 …

(Paris-Geneva-Kampala, May 17, 2016) Sudanese authorities should immediately release and guarantee the safety of 12 student activists currently detained incommunicado and without charges by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in connection with protests on the University of Khartoum campus, FIDH, the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the African …

(10 December 2014) Sudan has detained two prominent public figures on their return from political negotiations held in Addis Ababa between Sudanese political and armed opposition groups. A large number of personnel from the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), arriving in six vehicles, arrested Dr. Amin Mekki Medani, …

Investigate Allegations of Torture, Abuse (Nairobi, June 25, 2014) – The Sudanese government should immediately charge or release recently detained political activists, and investigate all allegations that they have  been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the …

(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 …