Dismissed judges challenge Sudanese regime at UN

Three hundred judges who were dismissed after the so-called ‘Salvation Regime’ under Omar Al Bashir assumed power in Sudan in a military coup d’état in June 1989, have raised a memorandum to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon asserting that the decision was contrary to the Judiciary Act of 1986.

They assert that the purpose of their dismissal was to tear-up the judiciary system and empower the regime’s judges.

The memorandum demands the intervention of human rights organisations to lift the injustice and oppression against the dismissed judges.

The memorandum alleges that the current head of the Sudanese judiciary, Dr Haider Ahmed Dafallah, told the group that the committee which was formed to examine the return of the dismissed judges has directives not to accept the return of any former judge to the service.