The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed “serious concern about the human rights situation in Sudan, with peaceful protesters killed or injured on a near-daily basis by security forces, as well as a clampdown on critics of the authorities and on independent journalists.”
Concluding a visit to the North Darfur capital of El Fasher on Sunday and Monday, UN officials from UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP), refugee agency (UNHCR), and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), have denounced the attacks on UN operations that occurred over the last few weeks.
Following the killing of at least seven demonstrators, and injury to more than 100 others, by security forces suppressing the January 17 March of Millions in Khartoum, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has lamented that repeated calls by the EU and international community on Sudan’s …
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The Sudanese Journalists Network has made an “urgent call for an international solidarity campaign to stop the crimes against humanity committed by military forces and militias in Sudan”.
The Sudanese Ministry of Information and Culture withdrew the license of Qatar-based Al Jazeera Live on Saturday, and closed its office in Khartoum. Sudanese journalists condemned the move. The work permit of reporter Mohamed Omar was withdrawn as well, the Arab satellite channel reported from Doha.