Tag Archives: Freedom of Expression

(28 March 2016) Sudan’s security agency has prevented three members of a civil society coalition from travelling to Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in meetings in preparation for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Sudan in May. The three were stopped by plain-clothed security agents after checking in, told they …

(23 March 2016) Sudanese authorities should stop harassing civil society activists and allow them to work without arbitrary interference and intimidation, DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said today. On 29 February 2016, National Intelligence and …

(10 February 2016) Sudan should stop the brutal suppression of protest and hold to account the security forces responsible for killing, injuring, and torturing protesters throughout the country. A group of 15 female protestors were beaten with wooden batons by members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on …

Sudan’s security forces conduct arbitrary arrests, use excessive force and beat students in El Geneina (8 February 2016) The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) is deeply concerned about new reports of arbitrary detention, custodial violence and excessive use of force by the Sudanese authorities in El Geneina, …

Below is the oral statement delivered by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) during the official agenda item “NGO statements on the human rights situation in Africa” during the 57th session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 57th …

International Federation for Human Rights – FIDH African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies – ACJPS Sudan Human Rights Monitor – SHRM Paris, Kampala, Khartoum, 23 September 2015 – The Government of Sudan continues to fail to ensure that those responsible for international crimes and other serious human rights abuses …

(5 September 2015) Saudi Arabian authorities should release and refrain from deporting the Sudanese journalist Waleed Aldoud Al-Mekki Al-Hussein, the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights, and the International Federation for Human …

A pdf version of the letter is available here. To Permanent Representatives of Members and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council Geneva, 3 September 2015,   RE: Gravely deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan Excellency, We write to share our serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights …

Uphold Free Speech, Assembly (Kampala, August 28, 2015) – Sudanese security agents have arrested, detained, and interrogated at least 17 members of opposition parties since early August 2015, Human Rights Watch and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) said today. Most of those arrested are affiliated with …

20 July 2015 Dear Special Envoy Ambassador Booth, In the run up to your visit to Sudan at the end of July, we, the undersigned Sudanese, African and international non-governmental organisations, are writing to brief you on some of our key concerns in regards to the human rights and humanitarian …