UN rights envoy arriving in Sudan tomorrow
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May 29, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A United Nations rights investigator
assigned to Sudan is scheduled to arrive tomorrow in the country in
preparation for his final report before the end of his mandate next
September.
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Justice Mohamed Chande Othman – UN human right envoy to Sudan (AFP)
The Rapporteur of Sudan’s Advisory Council for Human Rights Ahmed
Idris said that the work of the UN independent expert Mohamed Chande
Othman begins Monday through meetings with government bodies and
visits to Abyei, Juba, Malakal and Darfur.
Idris stressed that Sudan wants to terminate the mandate of the
independent expert citing lack of reasons that necessitate his
presence and pointed out that the humanitarian situation in the
country has become quite stable.
Othman, appointed by the U.N. human rights council to review Sudan in
2009, has been critical of what he described as repression by the
authorities in Khartoum against political opposition leaders,
journalists and students.
The former Tanzanian judge also expressed concern over violence in the
South and Darfur.
In a related issue the Sudanese authorities yesterday released two
figures from the Popular Congress Party (PCP) who were detained along
with the party’s leader Hassan al-Turabi last January.
The PCP criticized the government for ignoring its memo on its
remaining detainees who they claimed were kept without charges and
were not allowed to meet with their lawyers.
They also cited the poor conditions in which their members are kept
with some who suffer different illnesses and others kept in solitary
confinement.
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