African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
(29 September 2011) On 27 September 2011, officials from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) raided the Aljareeda newspaper offices in Khartoum. After ordering all employees to leave the premises, NISS officers posted guards at the main gates and locked the doors. Chief Editor Mr. Saad Aldeen Ibrahim and …
Read More »Sudanese Poet and Civil Rights Activist Detained by Government Authorities in Blue Nile State
(13 September 2011) On 2 September, well-known Sudanese intellectual and activist Abdelmoniem Raham was arrested in Damazein, the capital city of Blue Nile state. His whereabouts are currently unknown. An active member of the Sudanese Writers Union during the 1980s and head of the Arabic section of the Sudan Radio …
Read More »Perceived SPLM-Northern Sector Supporters Arrested throughout Northern Sudan
(6 September 2011) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies has documented hundreds of incidents of arbitrary arrest on the basis of perceived political affiliation and membership to particular ethnic groups since conflict reignited in Northern Sudan’s contested South Kordofan state in early June. Similar incidents have occurred in …
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