“The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies has received information that the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) and police have since December 19 2018, carried out a mass campaign of arrests targeting activist including, doctors, human rights defenders, journalists, professors and political party leaders with arbitrary arrest and prolonged detention, in some cases incommunicado, for their participation or suspected participation in the protests that occurred across Sudan…
“We strongly urge security agencies to stop harassing and intimidating Sudanese citizens, including human rights defenders, doctors and journalists and others who seek to exercise their rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly.”
Read more here: http://www.acjps.org/sudan-activists-targeted-with-arbitra
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