The level and performance of the Sudanese judiciary has significantly deteriorated during the past 25 years, according to a former judge.<\/p>\n
“The Khartoum regime that came to power by a military coup in 1989, has corrupted almost the entire judiciary,” former judge Seifeldawla Hamdallah said in Radio Dabanga’s satellite programme Sudanese files,<\/em> broadcasted on Saturday.<\/p>\n “The Sudanese judiciary, with the exception of a few judges, has been purged entirely during the past 25 years. The dismissed judges were replaced by affiliates of the National Islamic Front [renamed National Congress Party in the 1990s, ed.], and elements of the security apparatus. Accordingly, the judiciary has become unwilling and incapable to adjudicate any cases posed against the State.”<\/p>\n Prosecutors<\/strong><\/p>\n Hamdallah noted that “the prosecutors have become even worse that the judges”.<\/p>\n “Though they are wearing ties, their mindsets are like those of police officers. They have become partisan state employees as they are 100 percent manipulated by the ruling party.”<\/p>\n The former judge stressed that the public prosecutors must be disconnected again from the executive branch. “The attorney-general and the prosecutors should be able to work independently from the Ministry of Justice – which is definitely not the case until today.”<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n