Press Releases

(13 December 2018) This report is based on the work of internationally trained local monitors on the ground in South Sudan working for a national human rights organization. Both the monitors and the organization must remain anonymous given present security concerns. The information reported herein meets the threshold for initiating …

(11 December 2018) Media freedom is increasingly challenged in Sudan in spite of the clear protection provided in the country’s Interim National Constitution of 2005. The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have continued to censor information deemed to have crossed the red-lines and newspapers affiliated with the ruling party …

Denying a child citizenship based on the origin of her father is discrimination, Sudan should urgently grant nationality to Ms Iman Hassan Benjamin and should amend the Nationality law.  (10 December 2018) In May 2018, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACEWRC) issued a …

This report addresses how the Sudanese authorities demolished non-Muslim places of worship in light of Sudan’s national, regional and international human rights obligations. It also examines how religious leaders were prevented from legally registering their places of worship and how ownership of their property was arbitrarily transferred to the government …

(5 November 2018) ​The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon Sudanese authorities to urgently investigate the death of​ Mr. Fathi Ali Mohamed Hamamd ​who died at ​Alobid​ police station in ​North Kordofan state ​on 24 October 2018. ​Torture and other ill-treatment are absolutely prohibited under international …

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CORRECTION: A SUDANESE PRIEST CHARGED WITH APOSTASY AS EIGHT SUDANESE CHRISTIANS FORCED TO RETURN TO ISLAM AFTER ALLEGED TORTURE (30 October 2018) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) calls upon the Sudanese Government to urgently investigate the reported torture and ill-treatment of 9 Christian citizens who were detained by …

(The above photo is credited to Ayen Network). (25 October 2018) 18 October 2018 at 3:00pm, 4 policemen from the public order police department raided a car that was carrying a singer, Ms. Muna Majdi Salim. The policemen raided the car while she was waiting for the driver who had stepped …

The first apostasy(Ridda) trial in Sudan was held in 1968(1) prior to the provision for the offense itself in the fifth (2) Sudan Criminal and Penal Act of 1991- Article on apostasy (Article126: 1,2,3). Apostasy is Riddain Islamic jurisprudence and is punishable by ‘hadd’, which is a punishment fixed either …

During the reporting period (20 May 2017 to November 2017), numerous developments contributing to the deterioration of security took place in Darfur. Approximately 414 members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias and armed opposition movements were killed and 331 wounded. In May 2017, 234 members of armed movements were …