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Reports and Publications / Sudan / 2020 / July

Sudan: (Post)-Covid19 era in Sudan: The urgency to unravel the torture and inhuman treatments system one year after the Transition



Geneva (OMCT), Khartoum (ACJPS) - July 2020


The World Organization Against Torture and the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies has published today a report on eradicating torture and ill-treatment in Sudan.

The Covid-19 crisis is appearing in many African countries, including Sudan, as a revealing crisis which calls particular attention to the preexisting and worrying situation, mainly in the prison system marred by overcrowding, insufficient and inadequate sanitation and the lack of resources. In Sudan, torture and inhuman treatments have been used as a governing tool and prisons as dying houses for political activists and civil society organisation leaders.

This briefing identifies priorities for key reforms in Sudan by the transitional government including law reform, accountability, rehabilitation and compensation of torture victims. It also critically looks at the measures adopted to prevent the propagation of Covid-19 in detention facilities and the capacity of authorities to protect the health of detainees.


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Media Contact: Iolanda Jaquemet, ij@omct.org, mobile +41 79 539 41 06


The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) is the main global coalition of NGOs fighting torture and ill-treatment, with 200 members in more than 90 countries. Its international secretariat is based in Geneva, Switzerland. 

ACJPS is dedicated to creating a Sudan committed to all human rights, the rule of law and peace, in which the rights and freedoms of the individual are honored and where all persons and groups are granted their rights to non-discrimination, equality and justice.

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Date: July 16, 2020
Type: Reports and Publications
Country: Sudan
Subjects: Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, Discrimination, Human Rights Defenders, Indigenous peoples, Inequality, Minorities and marginalised communities, Non-state actors, Police, Military and Paramilitary, Summary executions, extrajudicial killings, Torture and violence, Women’s rights

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