REDRESS: Sudanese laws need reform to ban torture-tainted evidence
The UK-based REDRESS organisation has urged “a future legitimate and democratically elected Sudanese government” to reform its laws to curtail the...
Darfur activist tortured, charged with defamation over Facebook post
A 22-year-old activist named Seifeldin Ahmed was held, tortured, and charged with defamation over a Facebook post by Sudanese authorities...
Sudan Bar Association to consult pro-democracy forces on draft constitution
The Steering Committee of the Sudan Bar Association announced that it will hold meetings with the various groups that participated...
UNITAMS head to Dabanga: Political cooperation needed to avert Sudan collapse
Volker Perthes, the UN Special Representative for Sudan and head of the UN Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS),...
ICC: Further witnesses testify against Darfur janjaweed leader Ali Kushayb today
The trial of former Darfur janjaweed leader, Ali Muhammad Ali Abdelrahman (known as ‘Ali Kushayb’), who has been accused of 31...
West Kordofan: ‘No police response’ after farmer and son slain by gunmen
A group of gunmen killed a farmer and his son, also shooting and injuring the farmer’s sister near their farm...
Sudan Doctors Committee protests ‘burying of unidentified bodies’
The Central Committee of Sudan Doctors has denounced the decision of the Sudanese Senior Public Prosecutor to bury unidentified bodies...
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Envoys laud ICC Prosecutor Khan’s visit to Sudan
Leading international Ambassadors and Heads of Mission to Sudan, have issued a joint statement welcoming the visit by the Chief Prosecutor...
Sudanese youth on police head-shaving campaign: ‘Better do it yourself’
On Monday, the police carried out a ‘head-shaving campaign’ targeting a group of young men at the Bahri Market in...
West Darfur displaced hand ICC Prosecutor memo listing atrocities
The Displaced People and Refugees Gathering of the Masalit in West Darfur stated that people in the Kalma, El Hasahisa,...
ICC Prosecutor requests access to ousted Sudan dictator Al Bashir
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, confirmed that he had requested access to former ousted...
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