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The Right of Gathering … a Non Existing One Sudan
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17/ 1 / 2008
Sudan
The Right of Gathering … a Non Existing One
The right to peaceful gathering is still one of the violated rights in most of the countries of the region, in spite of its importance, and although it is one of the rights that are inseperable from the human character. In Sudan, the security forces barged into the university campus of the College of Education at Al Jazeera University on Sunday, the 13th of January at the time when the Democratic Front of the Sudanese students was holding a dialogue gathering. Confrontations took place between the security forces and the students gathered; which resulted in the death of the student/ Mo'tasem Hamed Abul Qasem, who was stapped by a dagger from behind. Three other students were injured whose names are: "Mojahed Al Rafee, Bakri and Ali." They had been all arrested thereafter.
The Arab Program for Human Rights would like to express its denouncement and surprise of this unnecessary violence committed by the security forces; to the extent to violate the right of life. It express its complete solidarity with the Sudanese students regardess of their political and ideological affliations. It reiterates their undivided right to exercise their right of gathering to express their peaceful opinion in consistency with article (21) of the International Convention of Civil and Political Rights.
The Arab Program of Human Rights demands the Sudanese Government to immediately release, with no preconditions, the three arrested students immediately. It also requests that the government brace complete responsibility of the physical and psychological safety of the students. The program also reiterates the necessity of opening an interrogation of this incident with those responsible and to find out the circumstances that led to the death of the student/ Mo'tasem Hamed Abul Qasem in order to promptly present those responsible to court.
The Program also beseeches concerned international and Arab organizations of human rights of the necessity to express soldarity with the Sudanese students and to levy pressure on the Sudanese Government to stop persecuting them; in addition to revising its national legislations to reflect the International Convention, which the Sudanese Governement cosigned and agreed to most of its documents.
Write to the first vice president of the President of the Sudanese Government
Mr. Ali Othman Mohammad Taha, Qasr Al Sha'b, P.O.Box 281, Khartoum –Sudan, Fax: 780796/ 779977/771651 183 249+. (Kindly write on the fax the following phrase: "Attention the first vice president of the Sudanese president")
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