‘More than 15 Darfuri students and human rights activists detained’: Darfur Bar
The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) expressed its concerns about the intensified campaign by the Sudanese security service against Darfuri activists. More than 15 students and human rights activists have been arrested since security forces shot at peaceful protesters at the University of Khartoum on 11 March. One of the students was killed. “The human rights violations and the crackdown of Darfuri activists, university students, and DBA members who provide legal aid to students detained by security forces, have been intensified,” the DBA said in a statement released on Wednesday. “On Tuesday, 18 March, a heavily armed security force arrested a number of Darfuri students and DBA members at the Soug El Arabi in central Khartoum. Ahmed Ali Ahmed Osman, a third-year law student at the Nilein University, Ibrahim Saleh Ibrahim (known as Guevara), a human rights activist and a graduate from the University of Sudan, and DBA members El Radi Ali Ibrahim and Abdel Rahman Yahya Dahya, were detained.” “The National Congress Party’s security apparatus has intensified its campaign of persecuting and arresting Darfur students and DBA members, simply because they are demanding an investigation into the facts that led to the killing of Darfuri student Ali Abakar Musa Idris during a peaceful protest at the University of Khartoum on 11 March. This widespread campaign against Darfuri students and human rights activists demanding the arrest of the murderers, is unjustified. It aims at weakening and gagging of those calling for justice.” The DBA points in its statement to the detention of more than 15 students and human rights activists, and demands their immediate release. It calls upon Sudanese civil society organisations and human rights activists to launch a massive campaign in solidarity with the detained Darfuris, and urges “the political forces to insist on the release of all the detained Darfuris, as a condition to be set for a national dialogue with the regime that has students’ blood on its hands”. File photo: Ali Abakar Musa Idris, 3rd year student at the Faculty of Economics, University of Khartoum, killed on 11 March 2014 (Radio Dabanga) Related: Guards storm Khartoum dormitory, force students out (14 March 2014) Slain student buried in Khartoum; Darfur Association calls security statement ‘racist’ (12 March 2014) One dies as troops fire on Darfuri students in Khartoum (11 March 2014)
The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) expressed its concerns about the intensified campaign by the Sudanese security service against Darfuri activists. More than 15 students and human rights activists have been arrested since security forces shot at peaceful protesters at the University of Khartoum on 11 March. One of the students was killed.
“The human rights violations and the crackdown of Darfuri activists, university students, and DBA members who provide legal aid to students detained by security forces, have been intensified,” the DBA said in a statement released on Wednesday.
“On Tuesday, 18 March, a heavily armed security force arrested a number of Darfuri students and DBA members at the Soug El Arabi in central Khartoum. Ahmed Ali Ahmed Osman, a third-year law student at the Nilein University, Ibrahim Saleh Ibrahim (known as Guevara), a human rights activist and a graduate from the University of Sudan, and DBA members El Radi Ali Ibrahim and Abdel Rahman Yahya Dahya, were detained.”
“The National Congress Party’s security apparatus has intensified its campaign of persecuting and arresting Darfur students and DBA members, simply because they are demanding an investigation into the facts that led to the killing of Darfuri student Ali Abakar Musa Idris during a peaceful protest at the University of Khartoum on 11 March. This widespread campaign against Darfuri students and human rights activists demanding the arrest of the murderers, is unjustified. It aims at weakening and gagging of those calling for justice.”
The DBA points in its statement to the detention of more than 15 students and human rights activists, and demands their immediate release. It calls upon Sudanese civil society organisations and human rights activists to launch a massive campaign in solidarity with the detained Darfuris, and urges “the political forces to insist on the release of all the detained Darfuris, as a condition to be set for a national dialogue with the regime that has students’ blood on its hands”.
File photo: Ali Abakar Musa Idris, 3rd year student at the Faculty of Economics, University of Khartoum, killed on 11 March 2014 (Radio Dabanga)
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Guards storm Khartoum dormitory, force students out (14 March 2014)
Slain student buried in Khartoum; Darfur Association calls security statement ‘racist’ (12 March 2014)
One dies as troops fire on Darfuri students in Khartoum (11 March 2014)
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