Defence team raises appeal to Sudan’s Constitutional Court
The defence team of Faroug Abu Eisa, Dr Amin Mekki Madani, Dr Farah El Agar, and Mohamed El Doud, have handed a memorandum to the Ministry of Justice, the national parliament, the Sudanese Bar Association, and the National Human Rights Commission, demanding the detainees’ immediate release. An appeal has been submitted to the Constitutional Court. Security officers detained Abu Eisa and Madani in Khartoum on Saturday, 24 hours after they had returned from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where they had signed the Sudan Appeal, a political communiqué calling for regime change. El Agar, legal consultant of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, and the head of his office were detained on the dame day. The head of the defence team, Nabil Adib, told Radio Dabanga that 15 lawyers are working intensively on the release of the detainees. “As the detentions are unconstitutional, violating the detainees’ constitutional rights of expression of opinion and peaceful assembly, we have also submitted an appeal to the Constitutional Court.” “In the memorandum, we state that the four opposition leaders, all lawyers, who were taken from their homes to an unknown destination by the National Intelligence and Security Service on Saturday, without any legal justification. Their relatives and lawyers are not allowed to visit them. Their detention is not only unconstitutional, but constitutes also a violation of human rights charters and Sudanese laws, including the in 2010 amended National Security Act,” Adib said. “Moreover, it is a violation of the government’s call for the National Dialogue. The meeting of Abu Eisa, chairman of the allied opposition parties, and Madani, representative of the Sudanese civil society, with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main rebel forces) in Addis, was an initiative of the AU mediation team, as part of the preparations for a broad national dialogue.” File photo: Nabil Adib Abdallah (ytimg.com) Related:Darfur Bar, REDRESS call for release of detainees (9 December 2014) Sudan Revolutionary Front, Dialogue Committee condemn detentions (8 December 2014) Sudan’s opposition forces condemn detention of their leaders (7 December 2014) Two Sudan Appeal signatories, SPLM-N official detained (7 December 2014)
The defence team of Faroug Abu Eisa, Dr Amin Mekki Madani, Dr Farah El Agar, and Mohamed El Doud, have handed a memorandum to the Ministry of Justice, the national parliament, the Sudanese Bar Association, and the National Human Rights Commission, demanding the detainees’ immediate release. An appeal has been submitted to the Constitutional Court.
Security officers detained Abu Eisa and Madani in Khartoum on Saturday, 24 hours after they had returned from the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where they had signed the Sudan Appeal, a political communiqué calling for regime change. El Agar, legal consultant of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, and the head of his office were detained on the dame day.
The head of the defence team, Nabil Adib, told Radio Dabanga that 15 lawyers are working intensively on the release of the detainees. “As the detentions are unconstitutional, violating the detainees’ constitutional rights of expression of opinion and peaceful assembly, we have also submitted an appeal to the Constitutional Court.”
“In the memorandum, we state that the four opposition leaders, all lawyers, who were taken from their homes to an unknown destination by the National Intelligence and Security Service on Saturday, without any legal justification. Their relatives and lawyers are not allowed to visit them. Their detention is not only unconstitutional, but constitutes also a violation of human rights charters and Sudanese laws, including the in 2010 amended National Security Act,” Adib said.
“Moreover, it is a violation of the government’s call for the National Dialogue. The meeting of Abu Eisa, chairman of the allied opposition parties, and Madani, representative of the Sudanese civil society, with the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF, an alliance of the main rebel forces) in Addis, was an initiative of the AU mediation team, as part of the preparations for a broad national dialogue.”
File photo: Nabil Adib Abdallah (ytimg.com)
Related:
Darfur Bar, REDRESS call for release of detainees (9 December 2014)
Sudan Revolutionary Front, Dialogue Committee condemn detentions (8 December 2014)
Sudan’s opposition forces condemn detention of their leaders (7 December 2014)
Two Sudan Appeal signatories, SPLM-N official detained (7 December 2014)
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