Press Releases

(22 May 2013) An immediate, independent and impartial investigation must be undertaken by the Sudanese authorities into the shooting of nine students at the main campus of El Fasher University, North Darfur by Sudanese police, National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and a student militia group aligned with the ruling …

(14 May 2013) Over the past two weeks, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) have launched a coordinated campaign of arbitrary detentions against political opposition members belonging to the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N). This latest wave of arbitrary detentions has taken place just weeks after a public statement …

Charge or Release All Detainees, Reform Repressive Security Laws (Nairobi, April 22, 2013) – Sudan has released 24 civilian political prisoners following president Omar al-Bashir’s recent pledge to “free all political detainees,” but at least 100 remain, Human Rights Watch, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, and the …

UPDATE: On 28 November 2013, the North Darfur Appeal Court overturned the amputation sentence of the three men under article 173 (penalty of capital theft when the hud is remitted) of the 1991 Sudanese Penal Code, which allows for hudud penalties to be remitted in capital theft cases where extenuating circumstances, …

(Nairobi, February 27, 2013) Credible sources in Sudan have reported that government doctors amputated a man’s right hand and left foot by court order in Khartoum on February 14, 2013, in violation of the absolute prohibition on torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishments, four human rights groups said today. The African Centre for …

(22 February 2013) At 9am on 21 February, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) bombed Derib al Reih village in South Darfur using Antonov aircraft, killing four civilians and injuring thirty-seven. The bombing killed four civilians, including two children. Thirty seven civilians were seriously injured, with some sustaining critical injuries, and …

(23 January 2013) To our African Leaders On the eve of the next African Union (AU) meeting on the Sudans, we appeal to you to do all you can to end the violence and restore peace to the people of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile in Sudan. The war that has raged between the Government …

(15 January 2013) Mr. Abdul-Aziz Khalid, Chairperson of the Central Council of the National Sudanese Alliance Party, was arrested from his home in Khartoum by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) at 9pm on 14 January. He is currently detained incommunicado in an unknown location. The NISS have refused …

(11 January 2013) Five political opposition leaders have been arrested by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) on their return from a meeting in Kampala, Uganda attended by Sudanese political opposition parties and armed opposition groups. The five are detained incommunicado in an unknown location and are at risk of …

(9 January 2013)  Three civil society organisations and one literary forum have been ordered to shut down and cease all operations by Sudanese authorities amidst a renewed clamp down on freedom of expression, association and assembly in the country. Attempts by journalists and activists to demonstrate against the closures have been …