African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies ACJPS | المركز الافريقي لدراسات العدالة و السلام
(22 August 2011) On 17 August, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Nyala, South Darfur, re-arrested Abdalla Haron Adam and Salah Babiker immediately after the Nyala Court ordered that they be released. Mr. Adam is a university graduate and member of the Maasalit ethnic group, and Mr. Babiker …
Read More »Targeting of Opposition-affiliated Journalists and Censorship of 30 January Demonstrations Continues
Contact: Osman Hummaida, Executive Director Phone: +44 7956 095738 E-mail: osman@acjps.org (5 February 2011) Following the mass mobilisation of activists in the 30 January demonstrations organised in Khartoum, Omdurman, Wad Medani, and Kosti by the “Youth for 30 January Change Alliance”, the capacity of opposition-affiliated newspapers to report on …
Read More »Youth Mass Protests Spark 113 Arrests and One Death
Contact: Osman Hummaida, Executive Director Phone: +44 7956 095738 E-mail: osman@acjps.org (1 February 2011) Demonstrations organised by the “Youth of 30 January for Change Alliance”, a coalition of members of student movements such as Girifna, Nahoa Alshari, and Aid ala Aid and supported by the National Consensus Forces, a …
Read More »Sudan’s Elections: The Implementation of the CPA and the Way Forward
On 11-15 April, Sudan held its first multi-party elections in 24 years. These elections were intended to be a critical benchmark in the process of democratisation envisaged under the CPA and an opportunity to lend popular support to the CPA framework, in particular to referenda intended to be held in …
Read More »Update on Violations Committed in Blue Nile and Dalang, South Kordofan
Government Campaign to Silence Activists and Quash Demonstrations in Sudan October 2011
Continuing Violations of Human Rights in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States: 24 August – 8 September 2011
(October 2011) The success of South Sudan’s January 2011 referendum and the peaceful separation of the North and South contrasts sharply with renewed violence in two of Sudan’s contested “three areas,” Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. Recent patterns of violations in South Kordofan indicate that aerial assaults and arbitrary …
Read More »Sudan Human Rights Monitor Issue 14
(October-November 2011) The relationship between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) has grown increasingly tenuous following the secession of South Sudan on 9 July 2011. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) partners have failed to resolve a number of outstanding post-referendum issues including the status …
Read More »Sudanese Government Continues to Repress the Freedom of Expression
(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 »129 People Charged with Apostasy in South Khartoum: Maximum Sentence is the Death Penalty
(14 September 2011) On 29 July 2011, 150 people were arrested by police in Hay Mayo, South Khartoum. All are members of the Hausa ethnic group and from Darfur. While 21 individuals (children and the elderly) were immediately released, 129 were subsequently charged with apostasy, disturbance of the public peace, and being a …
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