Human Rights Watch just published an article about six leading members of opposition parties detained by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).
Sudanese authorities should charge or release six members of opposition parties who have been detained in poor conditions by Sudanese security, most of them for weeks, without access to lawyers or adequate medical care.
The six are members of parties that participated in negotiations with rebel groups in January over an agreement endorsing peaceful and armed opposition to Sudan’s government. While detention for taking up arms against the government, or incitement to do so, is a legitimate ground for detention, Sudanese security agencies have overly broad powers of arrest. They routinely deny detainees, including those arrested on lawful grounds, their fundamental due process rights, making the detentions arbitrary and unlawful, Human Rights Watch said.
“Sudan should release the six detainees or promptly bring credible charges against them,” said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “These weeks-long detentions violating due process rights underscore the need for a major overhaul of Sudan’s national security agencies and the laws that govern them.”
You can read full article on Human Rights Watch website.
