Free human rights defenders in Sudanese government detentions

As a continuation of the arbitrary arrests and threats that the Sudanese government use to intimidate the human rights defenders in Sudan and Darfur especially, the Sudanese government's intelligence and security service arrested 14 of Darfuri human rights activists in Khartoum between 30 October  to 2 November 2010. The arrests, threats and killings by the Sudan government against the human rights defenders, journalists and the opposition/political parties are widely operated since this regime claimed to the power up to date, and extended more since the war broke out in Darfur. The government used all kinds of threats notably the arrests, threats, torture and killing as weapons in order to keep its power.

Meanwhile, the air strikes of the Sudan government's antonovs  and Helicopters over the civilians and villages in Darfur are still executing, the Sudan government and its allied militia Janjaweed and army forces are widely exercise the massive individual and collective killing against the civilians in Darfur, raping women and girls and burning the villages in Darfur since the war erupted in Darfur in the eyes of the international community in the time that the international community has nothing doing to protect the civilians from the genocide operations.

In 2009 followed the ICC's announcement of the arrest warrant against the top of regime the president al-Bashir, the Sudanese intelligence and security service were executed widely arrests operations, threats and harassment against the human rights defenders in Sudan, those operations caused the flee of over 10 famous human rights defenders and journalists to the other countries to save their lives. The operations were intended to kick out the human rights defenders who monitor the human rights violations in Darfur and Sudan and to lack the monitors and coverage of human rights violations so as to let them continue the committing of the crimes over the region.

The activists who were arrested are the following:

1-      Ms. Kauthar Abdul Haq Muhammad, 35 years %u2013 she was arrested in the office of MAAN organization (MAAN refers to: Together for Peace and Non-violence) - near the Qurashi park in central Khartoum on October 30, 2010.

2-      Ms Manal Mohamed Adam, 27 years, from Kotom - North Darfur, she was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

3-      Ms. Madam: Aziza Ali Idris, 26 years from El Geneina -West Darfur, she was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

4-      Ms. Aisha Sharif Sardou, 30 years, from El Fasher - North Darfur, she was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

5-      Mr. Abdul Rahman Mohammed Abu al-Qasim Lawyer, 45 years %u2013 from Toluos - South Darfur, he is the Legal Assistance Officer of The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) and the head of training, he married with 3 children, Mr. Abu al-Gassim suffers from heart disease and chest infections %u2013 he is one of the most famous personalities in the legal work to defend human and civil rights in Sudan.  He was arrested in Alsouq al-Arabi (the Central Khartoum) on October 30, 2010.

6-      Mr. Drar Adam Drar Kidanah, 28 years, from wadi Hawar- North Darfur, he is graduate of Nilien University - Former Secretary General of the Association of Wadi Howar Students in the Sudanese universities %u2013 currently a master student at the University of Juba. He is the younger brother of Mr Abdul Shakoor Adam Dirar Kidanah, the lawyer who was arrested with his family in 2008 and spent several months by the NISS then lately released without charge. Mr Drar was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

7-      Mr. Abdul Rahman Adam Abdul Rahman, 33 years %u2013 from Al Daein - South Darfur, he is  married and has one child. Mr Adam is working for the Radio Dabanga (the only one radio that broadcasts the daily news on the ongoing war and genocide that are taking place in Darfur since 2003), the radio based in Netherlands, Mr Adam suffers from a heart and other chronic diseases, and he was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

8-      Mr. Khalid Ishaq Mohammad Yusuf, 29 years, from Nyala- South Darfur,he was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

9-      Mr. Zakaria Yagoub, 34 years, from El Geneina, he is currently residing in Khartoum.

10-  Mr. Ibrahim Adam, 23 years, from Nyala- North Darfur, he was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

11-  Mr. Abu al-Qasim Muhammad Ali, 30 years from Al Daein- South Darfur, was arrested in the office of the MAAN organization on October 30, 2010.

12-   Ms. Hussna - North Darfur %u2013 no full information is provided; she was arrested on October 30, 2010.

13-  Mr. Ibrahim Abu Jaafar Subki - 37 years, from Um Kaddada - North Darfur, he is a journalist in Al-Sahafa Newspaper, he was arrested from the press offices of the newspaper in Khartoum on November 3, 2010.

14-  Mr Sharif Osman Omar Sharif - from Port Sudan - North Sudan State , he is a student in Khartoum University.

15-  Ms. Zamzam, no full information provided.

16-  Mr. Mohamed Ragab %u2013 he is student in University of Khartoum.

The authorities did nor knowledge the reasons of the arrests and the whereabouts of the detainees. additionally their families and their lawyers are not accessed to them till today, I therefore call up on you, individuals, collectives, organizations and intergovernmental agencies that advocate  and concern on the human rights protection to join the efforts by signing petitions, organizing campaigns or  writing letters to the Sudanese government to release those human rights activists or to bring them to the trail.