A delegation of the lawyers from a Sudanese human rights organization has met with prisoners accused of supporting the SPLM-North in the violence that broke out last September. The lawyers also on Thursday delivered a memorandum to the Ministry of Justice requesting them to speed up a decision on the application they filed last April to release the detainees on bail.   

A legal team for Sudanese Association for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms left on a visit 14 July to Damazin in Blue Nile State and Singa in Sennar State to interview prisoners associated with SPLM-North.

“We met about 113 detainees including 89 held in Singa Prison, 11 prisoners in Roseires, and 13 prisoners in Sennar,” said Tigani Hassan. He added that the delegation gathered detailed information including the names, ages, tribes and dates of arrest of all the detainees that they met.

Tigani Hassan told Radio Tamazuj that the lawyers met last Wednesday evening to determine the next step. The next day they sent messages to the Minister of Justice and the Prosecutor of the Republic. He said that the lawyers are willing to represent the prisoners in court.

The visiting lawyers associated with the Sudanese Association for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms included Tijani Hassan, Ahmed Mudawi, Islam Omar, Dr. Saleh Idris, Hamza Khalid, Abbas Mohamed Al Tahir and others.

File photo by UN-African Union Mission in Darfur/Albert Gonzalez Farran.