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Human Rights Abuses in Sudan over the Month of August 2016
Overview
During the month of August 2016, SUDO (UK)’s network of human rights monitors submitted 72 reports concerning human rights abuses across Sudan in nine Sudanese states.
Enclosed within the 72 reports, SUDO (UK) has assessed that forces under the direct control of the Government of Sudan2 were responsible for 38 instances of human rights abuses, whilst forces categorised as Janjaweed were responsible for 25 such abuses. The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North were held accountable for four human rights abuses, whilst unknown perpetrators were involved in three instances. Finally, a Ma’alia militia was involved in one such abuse during an attack on Rezaigat civilians in East Darfur. In total, 71 actors were deemed responsible for abuses contained within the 72 reports. The extra report noted the Press and Publications Court decision to dismiss a case against an Al-Jareeda journalist and the Editor-in-Chief following the publication of an article in the same newspaper detailing corruption in Omdurman locality.
The 72 reports further detail the following: the death of 33 civilians including three minors; the rape of 12 persons including one minor; the injury of 52 civilians; 14 incidents of abduction; 12 arrests; seven reports of aerial bombardment lasting multiple days targeting 28 civilian villages or settlements utilising barrel bombs and explosive bombs; one incident involving religious freedom; and 20 incidents relating to media freedom including eight ongoing trials, five newspaper suspensions, four investigations against individuals and newspapers, three newspaper confiscations, three assaults on journalists whilst undertaking their work, and one threat levelled at newspapers against reporting on the plummeting value of the SDG against the dollar and publishing statements of opposition figures during the AUHIP negotiations in Addis Ababa.