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 Re: عاجل من الخرطوم سلطات الامن تعتقل الان اعضاء منظمات المجتمع المدنى فى اتحاد المصارف (Re: أحمد أمين)
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Rights delegates detained at summit
From correspondents in Khartoum, Sudan
January 23, 2006
SUDANESE authorities detained more than 50 delegates from local and international human rights groups as they met on the sidelines of an African Union summit today, according to delegates.
Activists said the security forces' action called into question Sudan's right to host the AU summit.
"Towards the end of the meeting a group of security men came and demanded to see the agenda, the list of participants and our recommendations," Osman Hummaida from the Sudanese Organisation Against Torture (SOAT) said from inside the building.
"Everyone is being detained and we have been asked not to talk on the phone. We have not been told why we are being held," he said.
The meeting was to discuss closer cooperation with the AU on human rights issues.
Representatives of Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International and the International Bar Association were among those being held, Mr Hummaida said.
"They are harassing people and trying to get all the laptops from them," said Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a Sudanese human rights activist who has previously been arrested by the government.
"They cannot be hosting a summit while they have this kind of conflict and they cannot be the chairperson of the African Union," he said.
Journalists were told by police and state security officers to leave the building, next door to the Ministry for Humanitarian Affairs, and one had his recording equipment seized, a witness said.
Sudan, facing accusations of human rights abuses, is hosting the summit for the first time and is trying to persuade African leaders to back its bid to be president of the 53-member body.
The action by the security forces took place hours after Sudan signed up to an AU peer review mechanism, designed to reinforce good governance in Africa.
Khartoum's bid to chair the AU has provoked criticism from rights groups, which say it would make a mockery of AU efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region
. http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17907154-5001028,00.html
(عدل بواسطة Adil Osman on 01-22-2006, 02:49 PM)
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