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Quote: U.S. human rights report arouses wave of rejection in Sudan English.news.cn 2011-04-10 23:43:06 FeedbackPrintRSS by Fayez el-Zaki Hassan KHARTOUM, April 10 (Xinhua) -- A report issued by the United States State Department on the human rights situation in the world has aroused a wave of rejection amid the circles concerned in Sudan. The report, which was issued Friday, criticized many countries for their restrictions on the Internet and the censorship of websites. Sudan was among the countries which were accused of monitoring the online communications. "We primarily reject this report because no country has the right to evaluate the situation of human rights in another country or other countries," Ahmed Al-Mufti, director of Khartoum International Center for Human Rights, told Xinhua. "This report clearly indicates that the human rights file has become a political matter that is utilized to achieve political purposes and settle accounts with countries that do not agree with the American administration," he added. He stressed that the politicization of the human rights matter has affected its noble objective, which lies in the protection of human rights and preservation of freedom and public rights. "It is very important to distinguish between politicization and human rights protection," he said. Salahuddin Omer, a Sudanese lawyer and human rights activist, agreed that the issue of human rights might be utilized for other purposes. "Human right is a term which looks like democracy and many other terms. It has become a means and a tool that is utilized in the political and diplomatic language. It is used as a medium of pressure against a great number of countries which disagree with the big countries," Omer told Xinhua. "We are following up the mechanisms adopted by the International Council for Human Rights, including the appointment of a special rapporteur for human rights in Sudan, which constitutes a defective selectivity and an indicator that the human rights file has become a political matter," he said. Mohamed Osman Shandi, an independent human rights expert tasked with monitoring the human rights situation in Sudan according to a mandate by the Human Rights Council in Geneva, paid a week-long visit to Sudan last month and issued a report in which he praised the major recent developments in Sudan, including the south Sudan referendum. However, Shandi criticized what he termed as the increasing wave of loss of souls in south Sudan and displacement of civilians due to criminal activities, tribal violence and the clashes between the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the militant groups. Regarding north Sudan, he said that some basic rights, including the freedom of expression and political organization, were still violated and that some political opposition leaders, students and civil society activists were still held without direct charges against them.