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Overview
During the month of June 2016, SUDO (UK)’s network of human rights monitors have reported and verified 53 incidents relating to the abuse of human rights across Sudan involving seven Sudanese states.
Enclosed within the 53 reports, SUDO (UK) has assessed that various forces under the direct authority of the Government of Sudan2 were responsible, as individual entities, for 26 instances of human rights abuses. A further 20 abuses were carried out by groups categorised by monitors as Janjaweed, whilst five such abuses were recorded against “pro-government militias”3 . Four human rights abuses were perpetrated by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N), and two such abuses were registered against unknown actors.
The 53 reports detail the following: the death of 42 persons (inclusive of one policeman); the serious injury of 25 civilians; the rape of seven women including four minors; the arrest of seven persons (including one allegation of murder in relation to the aforementioned policeman and one member of a Janjaweed militia) and the death of another detainee within the Sudanese Armed Forces headquarters in Demazin; seven counts of kidnap (possibly another seven though whereabouts unknown following attack on Tor); one incident of aerial bombardment utilising seven barrel bombs; four direct attacks on civilian villages and/or towns; 16 incidents of looting; once incident of preventing the evacuation of injured civilians; and seven incidents pertaining to press freedom and freedom of expression including four court cases (one verdict levelling an SDG 10,000,000 fine) and the confiscation of all print editions of Akhir Lahza newspaper