Sudan to probe opposition figures detained since last December
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May 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese security service referred the case
of two Sudanese opposition officials to the police for the first times
since over four months after accusing them of waging war against the
state.
Ibrahim al-Sanosi, deputy secretary general of the opposition Popular
Congress Part (PCP) and another official Ali Shamar were detained
since their return from Juba in December 2011 by the National
Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) without charges.
Sanosi and Shamar were transferred to the police yesterday to
investigate charges of undermining the regime and inciting hatred
against the state after spending four and a half months, said Hassan
Abdallah Al-Hussein, the party’s human rights secretary in a press
conference held in Khartoum on Saturday.
The opposition official accused the NISS of circumventing the law,
adding that they have to free them in accordance with the National
security Act which provides to free a detainee when there is no
evidence against him. He stressed that the security agents failed to
prove their charges against the two opposition figures.
Sudanese official used to accuse Turabi’s party of backing the rebel
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and coordinating with the new
rebel umbrella Sudan Revolutionary Front which aims to topple the
regime.
Last week one of the PCP’s figures Ali al-Haj who is based in Germany
participated for the first time in a meeting organized in London by
the SRF members. the meeting condemned the repression exerted against
political activists and civilians after the recent attack on Heglig.
Sanosi staged last week a hunger strike to protest his illegal
detention without charge or trial. He was transferred to a hospital in
Khartoum.
However, Hussein told reporters that Sansoi was transferred to a
police station in Khartoum North while Shamar is at a Khartoum two
police station.
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