Sudan security service arrests human rights defender
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December 8, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - The National Intelligence and Security
Services (NISS) arrested Sudanese human rights defender, Mudawi
Ibrahim Adam, in Khartoum and taken him to undisclosed location, said
Amnesty International on Thursday.
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Chairman of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO) Mudawi
Ibrahim Adam (www.democracyandsecurity.org)
Adam was arrested on Wednesday 7 December at the Khartoum University,
where he works as an engineering professor.
The human rights group said his arrest is "further proof of the
government’s intolerance of independent voices".
Sudanese authorities recently arrested over 40 opposition figures and
activists following the increase of fuel, electricity and drugs.
Adam’s arrest comes among calls by the opposition groups for a second
general strike on 19 December. A first strike took place between 27 to
29 November.
“Mudawi’s arbitrary arrest underscores the government’s desperate
attempts to extinguish the last embers of dissent in the country. This
wanton repression and disregard for human rights must come to an end,”
said Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director
for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.
The Troika countries, European Union and Canada Wednesday expressed
concern about “the detention, apparently without charge, of a number
of political leaders either in anticipation of protests or having
protested government economic moves”.
>From December 2003 to January 2005, Mudawi had been arrested, during
several months in connection with his work with the Sudan Social
Development Organization (SUDO) in Darfur.
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