Press Releases

(19 March 2019) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has received reliable information indicating that 54 detainees have been released by National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Those released include; political activists, human rights defenders, doctors, activists, university professors and students. Thirty six of the 54  are …

(15 March 2019) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) expresses its utmost concern over the physical safety and wellbeing of eight activists detained incommunicado without charge by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). The activists were arrested between December 2018 and February 2019 for actual or …

(13 March 2019) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon Sudanese authorities to urgently investigate the reported torture and custodial death of three University students who were detained by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) for participating in the ongoing protests. Mr Muhajoob Eltaj Muhajoob, …

Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda IGAD Secretariat IGAD Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism   13 African civil society organisations call for strong IGAD response to uprising in Sudan 1 March 2019 Your Excellencies, We, the undersigned African civil society organisations, write …

Joint press release Kampala, Paris, The Hague, 4 March 2019 – Ten years ago today, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a historic first arrest warrant against Omar Al-Bashir, sitting President of Sudan, for his alleged responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur, a region that …

 (5 March 2019) ACJPS has received information indicating that National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) has released 51 detainees arrested for their actual or suspected involvement in the popular protests in Sudan. Those released include 14 journalists, 16 human rights defenders, 14 political activists, 2 doctors and 5 students. They were …

25 February 2019 The Chairperson, Mrs. Maitre Soyata Maiga The Commissioner on Sudan, Mr. Hatem Essaiem The Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders, Mr Remy Lumbu Ngoy Re: Urgent Appeal to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights to dispatch an independent fact-finding mission to establish the facts and …

Kampala, Paris, 20 February 2019 – The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and FIDH are deeply concerned about the safety of 30 women detained without access to lawyers or family members by the Sudanese National Security Intelligence Services (NISS) in Omdurman women’s prison. The detainees were targeted …

(19 February 2019)  ACJPS has received information on the arbitrary arrest and detention of 116 political activists between December 2018 and February 2019 for their participation or suspected involvement in the ongoing anti-government protests. At least three detainees, including 1 female have been subjected to six-month detention under the emergency law in …

For the past few weeks, since mid-December last year, Sudan has been witnessing a wave of mass protests demanding the stepping down of the thirty-year rule of President Bashir. These protests came as a result of the cumulative economic and political crisis that was caused by three decades of dictatorship …