The human rights situation remains precarious in Sudan and newly independent South Sudan, a United Nations independent expert said today, calling for full fundamental freedoms in the former and concrete steps to protect civilians in violence-torn parts of the latter.
"The human rights situation in Sudan remains fraught with challenges, particularly the full realization of political and civil rights," the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, citing freedom of expression and association, press censorship and the confiscation of media assets and reports of people being held without charge for long periods.
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