Press Releases

Uphold Free Speech, Assembly (Kampala, August 28, 2015) – Sudanese security agents have arrested, detained, and interrogated at least 17 members of opposition parties since early August 2015, Human Rights Watch and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said today. Most of those arrested are affiliated with …

(29 July 2015) Sudanese authorities should urgently investigate the torture and custodial death of one man and reported torture of two others accused of providing information to the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). Immediate steps should be taken to guarantee the safety of the two men, who face an …

20 July 2015 Dear Special Envoy Ambassador Booth, In the run up to your visit to Sudan at the end of July, we, the undersigned Sudanese, African and international non-governmental organisations, are writing to brief you on some of our key concerns in regards to the human rights and humanitarian …

Sudan: UN Security Council and States Must Cooperate with ICC on Darfur Investigation and Arrest Warrants The Hague, New York, 30 June 2015 – On 29 June 2015, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered her twenty-first report on the situation in Darfur, Sudan to the United Nations …

(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 …

17 June 2015 – The willful non-compliance by the South African government of a high court order preventing the departure of Sudan President Omar Al Bahir is cause for grave concern for the rule of law in the country. FIDH, ACJPS and LHR were alarmed that despite the court order …

(17 June 2015) Since April 2015, three villages in Blue Nile, primarily comprised of members of the Ingessana ethnic group, have been burned to the ground by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in an apparent attempt to forcibly displace communities perceived to support the rebel Sudanese Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-N). …

(15 June 2015) Pretoria, Paris, Kampala – Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) welcome the order issued yesterday by the High court in Pretoria to prevent the departure of the President of Sudan and wanted fugitive …

(2 June 2015) Two South Sudanese pastors are currently on trial in Khartoum for criminal charges which carry the death penalty under Sudan’s 1991 Penal Code after making public remarks criticizing a corruption scandal at a Khartoum Church and the treatment of Christians in Sudan. The two men Yad Michael, …

(1 June 2015) 32 Eritrean asylum seekers are at risk of forced return to Eritrea after a Sudanese court ruled that the group be deported from Sudan after serving two months in prison. The group was found guilty of illegal entry by a court in Sudan’s Red Sea State that …