Sudanese government denies death sentences

Says the arrested SPLM-N leaders aren’t being secretly executedThe Sudanese government said on Monday that it hadn’t issued death sentences to the 19 Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) members in its custody.The government’s security apparatus published denials that Abdel-Monim Rahma of the SPLM-N and his colleagues weren’t facing execution. Radio Dabanga had reported last week about the death sentences issued to the SPLM-N leaders in Blue Nile.SPLM-N: Regime diverting attentionHowever, Yasser Arman, secretary-general of the SPLM-N, said in a statement on Monday that the government’s public denial of the execution comes as a response to the growing international solidarity against the regime.He said, “The published denials by the Security Apparatus that Mr. Abdel-Monim Rahma and nineteen of his comrades, including an under-age detainee, are facing death sentences is an attempt to obscure clear facts from view, and counter the world-wide disapproval and distaste conveyed to the National Congress Party regime by foreign governments and international organizations, who were in contact with SPLM-N leadership, and remain closely following developments of the matter.”Arman also issued a warning to Omar Al Bashir and his government that, “If these executions are carried out, or should any harm befall the detainees, there will be serious consequences. The war crimes and grave violations committed by the NCP regime against the Sudanese people will sooner or later find redress, and perpetrators will be held accountable. Such gratuitous deaths, as you’re about to commit, beget only more deaths!”