The legal defense team of the head of the Sudanese opposition National Consensus Forces Farouk Abu Issa and Sudan Human Rights Monitor President Amin Mekki Madeni, who are still in detention in Khartoum, has petitioned the Federal Ministry of Justice for their release or trial.
Sudanese security forces in December detained Abu Issa and Mekki Madeni, besides Farah Agar after returning to Khartoum from Ethiopia, where they had signed a declaration with armed rebel groups entitled the ‘Sudan Appeal’ demanding end of conflict and democratic transition.
Nabil Adib, a member of the defense team, told Radio Tamazuj that the head of the legal team Omer Adulaati requested the Acting Undersecretary of the Justice Ministry either to release the detainees or take them to the court.
“It was not a protest, but rather it was an official request to release the detainees. You know very well that the detainees spent a long period of time in detention without any trial,” he said.
The lawyer further said the detainees are now facing charges for signing the Sudan Appeal declaration in Ethiopia. “But the Sudan Appeal was signed in the presence of all media and there is no need for their detention,” he said.