Tag Archives: Death Penalty

(16 March, 2023) African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) was alarmed by a recent execution on death row in January 2023 and two cases in 2022. We oppose the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature of the crime, the characteristics of the offender, …

(28 May 2018) On 24 May 2018, an appeal was filed on behalf of Ms. Noura Hussein Hammad, a 20 year old sentenced to death for killing her husband in self-defence after he attempted to rape her for a second time. On 9 May 2018, the Criminal Court of Omdurman …

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, …

The following is a joint press release from the Al-Khatim Adlan Centre for Enlightenment & Human Development (KACE), African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, the Darfur Bar Association, the International Refugee Rights Initiative, Sudan Consortium, the Sudan Democracy First Group, and the Sudan Social Development Organisation (SUDO) UK. To read …

To read the PDF versions, click here. FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights and its member organization for Sudan African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) Geneva, Kampala, 21 September 2016: Sudan’s failure to accept key recommendations made during its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) has confirmed the …

(August 2016) Contrary to Sudan’s commitments to international human rights standards and its own domestic law, the Government of Sudan continues to implement the death penalty widely. Amnesty International reported that in 2015, Sudan handed down eighteen death sentences and carried out three executions. In 2014, Sudan was reported to …

(15 July 2016) Darfuri student Mohamed Bagari, convicted of murder, faces the death penalty by hanging after an unfair trial based on a confession he made without legal representation. The case relates to a violent clash in April 2015 between members of the Darfur Students’ Association (DSA) and the Islamic …

  (25 May 2016) The harassment of Sudanese civil society activists affiliated with the organisation TRACKs for Training and Human Development (TRACKs) has escalated over recent days, with dormant charges pressed against two activists over a year ago reactivated and proceeding to trial, and eight staff and affiliates of TRACKs …

(19 April 2016) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) together with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) today published a joint briefing for UN member states setting out key concerns and recommendations to improve the human rights situation in …

(15 April 2016) On 6 April 2016 the Special Terrorism Court in Khartoum (Court 1), headed by Judge Abdien Hamad Ali, sentenced twenty-two South Sudanese nationals who were formerly members of the Darfuri rebel Justice and Equality Movement – Bakhiet Abdulkariem Dabajo wing (JEM – Dabajo) to death after convicting …