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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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| نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله | Kostawi | 08-16-12, 05:44 PM |
| Re: نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله | Kostawi | 08-16-12, 05:48 PM |
| Re: نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله | Kostawi | 08-17-12, 11:43 AM |
| Re: نانسي داؤود, زوجة رضوان, تحكي عن تفاصيل إعتقاله | saif massad ali | 08-17-12, 12:30 PM |
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