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Case SDN 050297.1
Follow-up of case SDN 050297

The International Secretariat of OMCT has  received new information on
the following situation in Sudan.

Brief reminder of the situation:
The Sudanese Victims of Torture Group, a member of the network,
informed the International Secretariat of the arrests, detentions and
fear of torture of sixty-one people in and around Khartoum at the end
of January and the beginning of February. The whereabouts of the
sixty-one people was unknown.

New information:
According to new information received from the Sudanese Victims of
Torture Group, Mohmed Babiker Mukhtar and Dr Mohmed Suliman  were
released on 21 February. 


Case SDN 220197.2
Follow-up of case SDN 220197 and Case SDN 220197.1

The International Secretariat of OMCT has also been informed of the
release of, Abdella Malik one of the forty-eight detainees on whose
behalf we requested your intervention. 

Brief reminder of the situation:
The Sudanese Victims of Torture Group, a member of the network,
expressed its grave concern over a wave of arrests made within the
month of January. Between 7 and 13  January 1997, forty-eight people
were arrested by the authorities in Khartoum and were being held
without charge. In several cases, families had not been informed of
the whereabouts of the detained. On 20 January 1997 Dr. Nageeb
Nagmadin Hassan El Toum, one of the arrested persons was moved from an
unknown detention centre to the ghost house at Kober Prison. 

New information:
According to new information received from the Sudanese Victims of
Torture Group, Abdella Malik, one of the forty-eight people arrested,
was released on 21 February. 

Action requested :
Please contact the Sudanese authorities urging them to:

i.	take immediate measures to guarantee the physical and psychological
integrity of all people still detained and immediate locate their
whereabouts if still unknown;

ii	immediately release all the detainees if they are being detained
without valid charge or, if such charges exist, to bring them before a
competent and impartial tribunal and guarantee their procedural rights
at all times;

iii.	open a full impartial inquiry into the all the events and
allegations of violations of fundamental rights, including acts of
presumed torture, identify all those responsible and bring them to
trial and apply the penal, civil and /or administrative sanctions
provided by legislation;

iv.	guarantee in all circumstances respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms in accordance with national laws and
international standards.

Addresses:
His Excellency Lieutenant General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, President of
the Republic of Sudan, People's Palace, PO Box Khartoum, Sudan. Telex
: 22385 PEPLC SD or 22411 KAID SD - Fax : +249 11 71 724

Brigadier Bakri Hassan Salih, Minister of Interior, People's Palace,
PO Box 281, Khartoum, Sudan. Telex : 22842 WZARA SD or 22604 IPOL SD -
Fax : +249 11 71724 / 76554 / 77900 / 73946 / 70186

Mr. Abdel Basset Sabdrat, Minister of Justice and attorney-General,
Ministry of Justice, Khartoum, Sudan. Telex : 22459 KHRJA SD (via
Ministry of Foreign Affairs) - Fax : +249 1174 063

Mr. Ali Osman Mohamad Taha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, PO Box 873, Khartoum, Sudan. Telex : 22459 KHRJA SD
or 22461 KHRJA SD - Fax : +249 11 74  063 The Diplomatic
Representatives of Sudan in your country.

Geneva, 10 March 1997

Kindly  inform us of any action undertaken quoting the exact number of
this appeal in your reply.



Ben Schonveld 
Projects Manager
OMCT-SOS-Torture
Fax 4122 733 1051
Ph  4122 733 3140
OMCT is: l'Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture
         The World Organisation Against Torture

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