Sudan: Human Rights Network Calls for Release of 134 Detainees

25 March 2018

Khartoum / Port Sudan — In a memorandum to the UN Human Rights Council, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and the Arab Commission for Human Rights, the Sudan Human Rights Network (SHRN) appeals to the international community to urge the Sudanese authorities to release the 134 political detainees currently being held incommunicado, or in prisons in Khartoum and Port Sudan.

SHRN expresses its concerns about the "gross human rights violations and abuses, and arbitrary detention by the Sudanese authorities" of civil society and political party members, tribal leaders, and activists.

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