Sudan: Darfur: Incommunicado detention, torture and special courts: Memorandum to the government of Sudan and the Sudanese Commission of Inquiry

Index AI : AFR 54/058/2004
Date de publication : 7 juin 2004
Catégorie(s) : Afrique, Soudan

This memorandum presented to the government of Sudan and the Sudanese Commission of Inquiry underlines the failure of the legal system in Darfur. It discusses the unfair justice system and the arbitrary detention of prisoners of conscience across Darfur. It also reports on the torture of detainees. The memorandum also raises cases of reported "disappearances", mostly of combatants of the SLA said to have "disappeared" after capture; the government denies holding them and their fate is unknown