Articles for Sudan

(14 February 2017) Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months, held by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) at Khartoum’s Kober Prison without charge or access to legal representation, 39 human rights groups and activists said.

On 7 December 2016, Mudawi Ibrahim Adam Mudawi, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, was abducted by members of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) at Khartoum University.

Alkarama is deeply concerned by the ongoing crackdown against peaceful opposition politicians and demonstrators in Khartoum, Sudan. This repression led to the arbitrary arrest and detention of dozens of political opponents by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in November 2016.

On 21 September 2016, the final outcome of Sudan's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), that took place on 4 May 2016, was adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).

On 19 June 2016, after a month and a half of incommunicado detention, Sudanese students Mai Adil Ibrahim Mohamed and Wifag Mohamed Gourashi Al Tayib were released by the authorities.

On 29 May 2016, after more than one month in detention, Mohamed Faroug Suliman Mahmoud and Murtada Ibrahim Idriss Habani, two senior members of Sudanese opposition parties, were finally released by the authorities. They had been arrested by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on 23 April 2016 after having joined a peaceful demonstration that took place at the University of Kordofan.

On 5 May 2016, several students, amongst which 25-year-old Wifag Mohamed Gourashi Al Tayib, were abducted by officers of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), as they were meeting a lawyer after they were expelled from Khartoum University in reprisals for their participation to peaceful demonstrations.

The situation in Sudan's university campuses continues to be a cause of concern for Alkarama which documented together with the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS), new cases of human rights violations against students, in reprisal against their participations to peaceful demonstrations.

Alkarama is deeply concerned by the ongoing repression against students and political opposition activists in diverse universities campuses across Sudan. This crackdown led to the arrest of dozens of students and the killing of at least two others by National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officers in April 2016.

On 4 May 2016, Sudan's human rights records were reviewed at the occasion of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Many States raised similar concerns to those mentioned by Alkarama in its UPR submission particularly regarding the worrying state of freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and the widespread practice of torture and ill-treatment.