Documento - SUDAN. Temor de tortura / detención en régimen de incomunicación / detención sin cargos

PUBLIC AI Index: AFR 54/031/2003

08 May 2003

Further Information on UA 110/03 (AFR 54/025/2003, 23 April 2003) Fear of torture/ incommunicado detention/detention without charge

SUDAN Abubaker Hamed Nur (m)- engineer

Yusuf Mohammad Faleh (m) - engineer

Mohammad Bashir Ahmed (m)- civil servant

Bashir Bushara (m)- businessman

Hashem al-Tayeb (m) – businessman

Abdel Rahman Ahmad (m) - businessman

Mohammad Hashem Abdel Rahman (m) - businessman

Ibrahim Mohammad Hassan (m), aged 55 - photographer

New name: Abdel Shafi Issa Mustapha (m), aged 48 - director of the Nyala Textile Factory

Amnesty International has learned that Abdel Shafi Issa Mustapha was arrested on 25 April by security forces, reportedly in Nyala, Western Darfur. It is thought that he is being detained incommunicado at an unknown location. He may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment in detention.

Abdel Shafi Issa Mustapha had already been arrested on 10 April and released on 17 April by security forces. He is a member of the Fur ethnic group. The reason for his arrest is not known, but it is alleged that he may be accused of having links with the Sudan Liberation Army.

There is no further information on the eight others named above, who were all detained in April, possibly on suspicion of involvement with the Sudan Liberation Army.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, in English or Arabic or your own language:

- expressing concern over the incommunicado detention of Abdel Shafi Issa Mustapha and the eight other men named above, and urging the authorities to publicly reveal their whereabouts;

- urging the authorities to allow the detainees immediate and unrestricted access to their relatives, legal counsel and any medical aid they may need;

- calling on the authorities to give immediate assurances that the detainees will not be tortured or ill-treated;

- calling on the authorities to either charge the detainees with a recognizably criminal offence and bring them to justice according to international standards of fairness or release them immediately.

APPEALS TO:

Mr Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ministry of Justice

Khartoum, Sudan

Telegrams: Justice Minister, Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: + 249 11 799031

Salutation: Dear Minister

Major General Abdul-Rahim Muhammed Hussein

Minister of Internal Affairs

Ministry of Interior

PO Box 281

Khartoum, Sudan

Telegram: Minister of Internal Affairs, Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: + 249 11 774339 / 776554/ 773046 / 770186 / 777900 / 773046

Salutation: Dear Minister

Dr Nafie Ali Nafie

Minister of Federal Government

Office of the Presidents People’s Palace

PO Box 281

Khartoum, Sudan

Telegrams: Federal Government Minister, Khartoum, Sudan

Fax : + 249 11 771651/783223

Salutation: Dear Minister

Mr Mustafa Osman Ismail

Minister of Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PO Box 873

Khartoum, Sudan

Telegrams: Foreign Minister, Khartoum, Sudan

Fax : + 249 11 779383

Salutation: Dear Minister

COPIES TO:

Dr Yasir Sid Ahmed

Advisory Council for Human Rights

PO Box 302

Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: + 249 11 779173 / 770883

and to diplomatic representatives of Sudan accredited to your country.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY. Check with the International Secretariat, or your section office, if sending appeals after 19 June 2003.