Articles for Sudan

On 16 September 2015, Alkarama and the Arab Coalition for Sudan (ACS) sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the abduction of member of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, Babacar Moussa Issa, by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on 27 August 2015. Secretly detained by the NISS, Babacar would have been repeatedly subjected to torture since his arrest.

The Human Rights Committee, the treaty body monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), held its 111th session in July 2014. On this occasion, the Committee reviewed Sudan's fourth periodic report and issued its concluding observations.

 

During its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, Sudan accepted to consider ratifying the International Convention against Torture (CAT), in follow up to its 1986 signature of the treaty. 2013 is coming to an end and Sudan has failed to act upon its promise.

Alkarama has been campaigning for Sudan's accession to the CAT, a call that has also been made by the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan in his latest report in 2013.

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Alkarama today condemned the Sudanese Authorities for continuing to detain two journalists, the photojournalist 'Ali Mustafa Muhammad al-Hajj, 34, and producer Yusuf Ibrahim, 43.
Alkarama condemns the oppressive and violent treatment of Sudanese university students who demonstrated demanding freedom and democracy last June. The security forces used violence that resulted in the deaths of more than ten students , and hundreds of arrests accompanied by torture.

The Sudanese government is continuing its campaign against students. Many breaches of student rights occurred in October, and student sit-ins were forcefully broken up, which has led to numerous injuries and arrests amongst students.

Alkarama for Human Rights, 2 February 2008.

Alkarama for Human Rights has attended in Khartoum, Sudan, from 26-27 November 2007, an international conference on human rights abuses in the Guantanamo detention centre. The conference title was : "Guantanamo prison : The Law of Force   and not the Force of Law".