Press Releases

(3 September 2014) Excessive and Deadly: The use of disproportionate force, arbitrary detention and torture against protestors in Sudan is a joint report by Amnesty International and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS). Over the past two years, a deteriorating economy and other austerity measures have fuelled popular …

(25 August 2014)  141 Groups in 40 Countries Speak Out African countries should reject immunity for sitting leaders for grave crimes before the African Court for Justice and Human Rights, 141 organizations said today in a declaration in advance of an African Union meeting in Nairobi. The organizations include both African groups …

(19 August 2014) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) has documented the death of a third detainee in custody in Port Sudan after he was flogged and detained under public order laws. On 10 August Jilani Mohamed Ahmed Abdul Rasul, (m), 24 years of age, and a …

(8 August 2014) Sudanese authorities should urgently investigate the deaths of two men in early August following their detention and flogging in a Port Sudan police station and hold those responsible to account, said the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS). Hussein Hadab, (m), age 45, a businessman …

To Permanent Representatives of member and observer states of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 18 July 2014 RE: Human rights situation in Sudan at the 27thsession of the Human Rights Council Excellency, The undersigned organizations urge your delegation to recognize and respond to the gravity of the human rights …

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 …

(26 May 2014) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) continues to document targeted attacks on civilians in South Darfur after a brutal counter-insurgency campaign led by the Government’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the state has subsided. On 14 May four civilians, including one child, were …

(21 May 2014) A little over a month after President Omar al Bashir’s announcement on 6 April that all political detainees would be released in a bid to open up dialogue on the future of the country, the Sudanese authorities have continued to subject independent activists and political opposition party …

Kampala, Nairobi, Paris, May 20, 2014 – FIDH and its member organisation, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), condemn the sentencing of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim to death for apostasy and to a hundred lashings for adultery and urge Sudanese authorities to revoke this decision. The verdict constitutes …