Sudan: Extrajudicial Killing and Incommunicado detention

(10 January 2020)

This report aims to document human rights violations that occurred between December 13, 2018, to April 11, 2019, to contribute to the efforts to ensure accountability, equity and the rule of law.

The report bears witness to and chronicles the widest detention campaign since 1989 including arrests of children, individuals of political affiliations and systemic detentions of university students especially those whose ethnic origins link them to Darfur region in western Sudan. Detention also included the leaders of political opposition from the Umma National Party, the Sudanese Communist Party, the two wings of the Ba’ath Socialist Party, the Sudanese Conference Party, the Nasserite Unionist Party and some members of the Popular Congress Party, the People’s Liberation Movement-North Sector (Aqar Leadership) and civil society and social media activists. Detention also systematically extended to trade union leaders like doctors, teachers and agriculturalists.  Since the leadership of protests was linked to the Sudanese Professionals Union, a large-scale detention campaign was launched against teachers, veterinarians, doctors and engineers in various sectors including specialists in communications, lawyers, pharmacists, journalists, human rights activists and others. The number of detainees who appeared before criminal courts or those who were accused of charges that were not proven before the court was estimated at 2500 persons during the period covered by the report. During this period detainees suffered from torture and ill-treatment in incommunicado detention for long periods before allowing their relatives to see them on short visits under close vigilance by the agents of the security service.

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