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 نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله
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Rudwan Dawod spent six months in Sudan and South Sudan last year leading a number of humanitarian projects and was featured in an Al Jazeera documentary titled, "How to Mobilize a Million" (watch it on YouTube). In his most recent trip back to South Sudan at the end of May, he was leading a reconciliation effort in which Muslims would help re-build a Catholic church in protest to a recent church-burning in Khartoum.
The government of Sudan was aware of Rudwan's plans to enter his native country and they were waiting for him. Approximately ten days after he arrived in the north, Rudwan was arrested along with a dozen others in Al Haj Yousif at a demonstration he helped organize through Girifna, a youth movement calling for change in Sudan through peaceful, non-violent protests. They were speaking out against the austerity measures and increasing cost of food and basic goods, and against the violent crimes of the government.
The police beat Rudwan unconscious and then went to his home to arrest his father and brother. They vandalized their home, stealing their money and valuables. Shortly after, Rudwan was taken to the NISS headquarters while the others remained in Haj Yousif Police Station. He was deprived of sleep and was tortured for days as they mocked and insulted him for his work in re-building the church in South Sudan. They beat him on his back and feet until he fainted, trying to coerce a false statement from him that he was CIA. Local government-controlled papers featured front page stories that a “terrorist cell” had been arrested and the leader was married to an American. It claimed we were part of a Darfur military movement supported by South Sudan to bomb several market places in Khartoum.
While initially held incommunicado with visits denied to any lawyer or family member, Rudwan was soon transferred to a prison in Omdurman by order of the court after he appeared visibly exhausted and unable to walk well. We believe media pressure also played a key role in his transfer. The others being held in Haj Yousif were brought to Omdurman Prison to join Rudwan, where they remained until everyone except Rudwan and Ahmed Kawarti were acquitted on July 25th.
There are five (5) charges against Rudwan and Ahmed, including Attempt, Abetment, Rioting (with violence), Calling for opposition to public authority (with violence), and Criminal and terrorist organizations (with violent intent). The most serious charge is punishable up to ten years in prison or the death penalty. The court will make their decision on August 13th.
Armed with only a flyer, Rudwan and Ahmed are completely innocent of any of these accusations and fabricated lies. The flyer called for others to demonstrate against the lack of food, increasing transportation fees due to loss of oil subsidies, and unemployment rate after graduation. They asked others to take to the streets and protest against the corruption of the government that caused the secession of the south, destruction and death in Darfur and the mass killings in Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. (Copy of flyer available upon request.)
Please help us keep the pressure on Sudan 's government to release Rudwan, Ahmed and the thousands of other peaceful protestors being held. It is NOT a crime to call for peace, equality, justice and democracy in Sudan !! For the love of his country, it was Rudwan’s conscience-duty.
“The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.” Winston Churchill
Nancy Dawod
Springfield, Oregon
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Re: نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله (Re: Kostawi)
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Sudanese activist acquitted, rearrested
The Springfield man’s fate still is uncertain after he is taken from court
By Karen McCowan
The Register-Guard
Published: (Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012 09:33AM) Midnight, Aug. 14
Shortly after 2 a.m. Monday, Springfield resident Nancy Williams Dawod got the news that she’d been praying for.
Her husband, former Lane Community College student Rudwan Dawod, had just been acquitted of terrorism for organizing a student protest in his native Sudan — a charge that carried a potential death penalty.
“I was ecstatic,” said Nancy Dawod, who is eight months pregnant with the couple’s first child.
But distressing news came only a half-hour later: While still in the courthouse in Sudan’s capital city of Khartoum, Rudwan Dawod was once again arrested by Sudan’s National Intelligence Security Service and taken to an undisclosed location.
“I am so, so worried for his safety,” said Nancy Dawod, an Umpqua Bank employee. She met her future husband in 2009 when both volunteered with Sudan Sunrise, a nonprofit group for which Rudwan Dawod has been working as a project leader on refugee and reconciliation projects.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement Monday afternoon “strongly urging” the Sudanese government to honor the judge’s decision to release Rudwan Dawod, who is a permanent U.S. resident.
“The government of Sudan must respect its citizens’ rights, including due process, freedom of assembly and the ability to petition the government for reform,” the statement said.
Nancy Dawod stayed up all night Sunday to learn the results of the sentencing hearing for her husband, whom she said was also beaten and tortured before being jailed for more than a month in connection with a July 3 protest by the pro-democracy student group Girifna.
The court proceeding began about 11 a.m. Khartoum time — 2 a.m. in Oregon.
Nancy Dawod watched the results dribble out on the Internet. The information came in short bursts, via Twitter tweets and Facebook posts by other young democracy activists who’d worked with Rudwan Dawod and attended the sentencing.
At 2:13 a.m. she read the words she’d waited for: “Rudwan released with a fee of 500 Sudanese pounds.”
She knew the relatively small fine — the #####alent of about $100 here — meant he’d been convicted on only a minor offense, such as disturbing the peace. The judge had acquitted him of the most frightening charges against him: criminal organization and terrorism.
But a half-hour later came a flurry of distressed messages, often in broken English.
“Unfortunately they took him again to other place just now,” a lawyer there e-mailed. “We’re confusing now.”
“What on earth is going on??!” tweeted a Girifna member.
“Urgent: re-arrest of Rudwan Dawod after paying the fine and was released from the seat of the Court by the security service as usual taken to an unknown destination,” a Sudanese friend’s Arabic Facebook post, as translated by Bing, a Web service engine.
Nancy Dawod called one of her husband’s lawyers, who said Rudwan Dawod’s legal team didn’t know where the officials had taken him.
As the day wore on, however, she learned that they believe he is at the security agency’s headquarters — and that United Nations and Amnesty International officials have pledged to try to seek his release today.
If they succeed, Rudwan will not have to worry about returning to the courthouse to pay his fine, she said.
“Within five minutes, supporters collected and paid his fine,” she said.
Rudwan Dawod, 30, recently completed LCC’s English as a Second Language program, and the college recently issued a statement of support for the former student. He grew up in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, but became a permanent resident of the United States after his September 2010 marriage to Nancy Williams, a Cottage Grove native.
http://www.registerguard.com/web/updates/2858...dan-husband.html.csp
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Re: نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله (Re: Kostawi)
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| Quote: Africa: Sudan - Arrests an Activist After Being Acquitted Due to Charges of Participating in Peaceful Protests |
Sudan
16 August 2012Comment
press release
ANHRI condemns the Sudanese security forces re-arresting of the Sudanese activist "Radwan Yakoub Dawood", on the 13th of this August. He was arrested after finishing the procedures of his release after a decree of his acquittal was issued and the charges were dropped. He was arrested due to the help he provided during the organizing in the demonstrations erupted in Sudan completing the Arab spring.
The Sudanese arrested him due to participation in the demonstrations in the Sudan. The Sudanese security forces alleged that he poured the gas on the old tires to burn it in addition to possessing a gas can to be used against the security forces.
He was arrested immediately as he was accused of traffic disrupting and threating the public safety, during the demonstrations launched from the Khartoum in July 16, 2012 to denouncing "Bahsir's rule". In particular, after he took some decisions led to the rise of the prices especially the petroleum products and the increase of tax.
The Sudanese judiciary ordered of releasing him after the duration he stayed in jail since July 3, 2012, in accordance with Article no. 19 explained in article no. 20, which stipulates that the start on acting not the conduct of the act.
The order stipulated that the court view that the duration he stayed in Jail is enough and fine him of 500 Sudanese Pound (100 USD) after being convicted in accordance with article no. 69 of the Sudanese criminal law due to violation the public safety. The court acquitted him for the insufficiency of the evidences from another charge, which is the start of forming a terrorism cell, in which he could be imprisoned for 10 years.
In a unique scene which deemed to be a serious violation to the judicial authority and asserts the police nature of the regime, the security forces threatened him of not releasing him even if the court allows him to. The forces arrested the Captain "El-Tayb Abdul-rahman" and took him to a security building without specific charges to re-arrest him again. The security forces are authorized to arrest a citizen without any any specific charges in accordance to the criminal and civil laws, as the emergency law, of bad reputation, as well as the inhuman security law which allow the security forces to arrest an individual without specific reasons.
ANHRI said "the arrest of "Radwan" after his release and without charges is a new series of the violations, conducts by the police forces, against the public and personal freedoms, which continue before the protesters which severely escalated after the start of the demonstrations calling for the end of "Bashir" rule.
ANHRI expresses its resentment of the continuing arrest against the activists due to false charges, and its insistence of enforcing the emergency law and its inhuman procedures. ANHRI added that the police should immediately release "Radwan", guarantee his safety and not legally prosecute him with false charges.
ANHRI called the Sudanese authority to terminate using the emergency law which proved its failure to achieve security and stability in all the countries that enforced it. It also warns from using the security solutions against the peaceful demonstrations and the legitimate people calls, especially after the fail of the security soultions with the neighbors in the Arab region.
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Kostawi
saif massad ali
فيس بوك
تويتر
انستقرام
يوتيوب
بنتيريست