Urgent Action: Dozens of Sudanese women detained
The detainees are in danger of torture and ill treatment by the security forces. They should be released immediately or formally charged and allowed access to family and lawyers.
The Sudanese security forces in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains state, started arresting women early November and interrogating them about their relations to the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement/North, which is fighting the Sudanese government in the region since June 2011. Witnesses informed the campaign group Arry that in the first week the women were always at the end of the day, but the campaign intensified from November 10 when15 women called for investigations were detained and are still being held.
During the first week of November reports indicate that dozens of women were investigated and accused of supporting the rebels. On November 11, the campaign increased and the numbers of women in detention now is 33, with one man. Most of the women are married and have children in need of care. This arrest campaign comes in awake of escalating violence in Kadugli and the villages around it, as the attacks by Sudanese government forces on SPLM/N troops and the SPLM/N attacks on Kadugli have forced hundreds to leave the town. Displaced persons from the town arriving in Al Obeid in North Kordofan State reported that Ahmad Haroun, the governor of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains State, restricted movement out of the town and civilians had to sneak out at night using dangerous paths to flee the fighting and to search for food leaving behind a ghost town.
The names of the women and man in detention are :
1 Elradia Suleiman Tiya - Teacher
2 Amal Abdelfadeel Elnur- Inspector at taxation department
3 Afaf Madeni Nasir - Sabori Village
4 Madeni Nair - (the only man on the list and father of Afaf)
5 Hawa Kubara Mussad
6 Meha Ali
7 Rabha Kaila
8 Magda Mubarak
9 Amal Abdelgadir - Ministry of Finance.
10 Fatima Subahi
11 Bahja Muwafi
12 Samia Hussien
13 Aisha Hussien
14 Fatima Maki
15 Summia Mergani
16 Ihsan Ibrahim
17 Fatihia Abdelmutaib - Ministry of Health
18 Resail Murad
19 Ihlam Abdelgadir
20 Allia Musa
21 Zainab Musa
22 Amna Yousif
23 Umelhussien Abuzaid
24 Tayseer Abdelgadir
25 Samia Zaroog
26 Khadiga Mohammed Badur - university graduate
27 Aisha Hiadan
28 Fatima Mohamed Ali
29 Naik Bashir
30 Hiba Abdelrahman
31 Rawia Mus
32 Asmehan Ramedan Maki- Lab techinian
33 Wijdan Ibrahim- Kadugli Radio Station
34 Nejat Ibrahim
Arry organization and the families of the detainees are extremely concerned about the safety of those detainees, as they are in danger of torture and ill treatment in detention. Therefore Arry organization is calling on the Sudanese government to:
Immediately and unconditionally release the 34 detainees and insure their safety or press charges against them.
Allow the detainees family visits and ensure them access to lawyers and medical care and reveal their detention location.
P LEASE SEND APPEALS NOW TO:
President Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir
Office of the President People’s Palace PO Box 281
Khartoum, Sudan, Fax: +249 183 782 541
Salutation: Your Excellency
Minister of Justice
Mohammed BusharaDousa
Ministry of Justice, PO Box 302 Al Nil Avenue Khartoum, Sudan
Fax: +249 183 764 168
Email : [email][email protected]
Salutation: Your Excellency
And copies to: Minister of Interior Ibrahim Mohamed Hamed Ministry of Interior
PO Box 873 Khartoum, Sudan.
Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.