(15 June 2017) Three activists from Eidel Firsan locality in South Darfur are currently detained incommunicado by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) without charge or access to their families. A lawyer contracted by the activists’ families has expressed concern for their safety and well-being, and vulnerability to torture …
Read More »Update: Seven students currently held incommunicado in unknown location after raid on university hostel
(23 May 2017) Demonstrations led by students on university campuses continue to be dispersed violently by Sudanese authorities. The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) remains extremely concerned about the excessive use of force by security forces to disperse student gatherings within the month of May. ACJPS has documented …
Read More »Excessive use of force directed at students by Sudanese forces in White Nile and Khartoum Bahri
(19 May 2017) In May, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) documented two separate incidents of excessive use of force by Sudanese forces, and in one instance, an affiliated student militia, directed at University students. Police raided a student residence at Bakht Alrida University in White Nile …
Read More »Blue Nile: Years in prolonged detention and no hope of justice
A legal analysis of the events that occurred after the resumption of conflict in Blue Nile in September 2011 Read the full report here. Following the outbreak of conflict in Blue Nile state in September 2011, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) documented hundreds of arbitrary arrests …
Read More »Demolition of church in Khartoum and arrest of two parishioners
(11 May 2017) On 5 May, police attached to the Interior Ministry of Planning and Urban Development, alongside joint forces of the riot police and National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) demolished the Church of Christ in Soba area, Khartoum. The gathering rooms for youth and another for women were …
Read More »UPDATE: Female human rights defender joins individuals detained incommunicado following Sudan’s civil disobedience campaign; whereabouts of detainee still unknown
(16 January 2017) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is currently aware of seventeen detainees currently held incommunicado by the Government of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). In particular, there are serious concerns regarding the well-being and treatment of human rights defender Tasneem Ahmed Taha …
Read More »Joint NGO statement: Sudan: Prominent human rights defender detained incommunicado
(20 December 2016) A prominent Sudanese human rights defender (HRD), Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, is currently detained incommunicado by the country’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Dr. Mudawi was arrested at the University of Khartoum, where he is a professor, on 7 December 2016 alongside his longtime driver, Adam …
Read More »Urgent concern for detainees held incommunicado amidst Sudan’s growing civil disobedience campaign
(15 December 2016) The Government of Sudan has responded to a growing civil disobedience campaign by arresting and detaining incommunicado at least forty two political opposition party leaders, activists, and individuals, including one prominent human rights defender, Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, and censoring newspapers by seizing their print editions prior …
Read More »Joint Communication to United Nations Special Procedures regarding TRACKs case in Sudan
To: United Nations: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Ms Agnes Callamard; Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr David Kaye; Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, …
Read More »17 members of the political opposition Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) currently detained incommunicado
(1 December 2016) At least 17 members of the political opposition Sudanese Congress Party (SCP) are currently detained without charge and access to their families and lawyers at National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) offices near Shande Bus Station in Khartoum. The detained SCP members were all arrested from 4 …
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