Press Release Sudanese Activists and NGOs in Cairo & Kampala at Imminent Risk In the wake of the escalating threats to activists in Cairo and Kampala, Dr. Bushra Gamar the director of HUDO, launched a press release today alerting the activists in both cities from the Sudanese government plans to execute assassinations and kidnappings in both cities. According to HUDO statement, the Sudanese government will take advantage of the unrest in Cairo due to the 30 June demonstrations. Moreover, the statement noted to the deployment of 100 security elements to Cairo in the last few days to implement the government plan. Arry organization has been following the situation in Cairo very closely and documented some of the reprisals and kidnapping cases in the last y months, but we would like emphasize the that there is more incidents that we documented but has not been shared here for security reasons. In addition to that we call on you to share this info among trusted contacts. Kidnapping attempts and intimidation: Awad Altaiyeb Abdu Alrahaman is HRD from Southern Kordofan, working with “Human Rights and Development Organization ( HUDO)”. He fled Sudan to Egypt on January 14, 2013 after being harassed and attacked by the Sudanese government in result of his work in documenting their violation in his home town Alabasya, in Nuba mountains. Few weeks after Awad arrived in Cairo the security elements started threading his wife in Sudan to give them Awad’s address and number, therefore he told her to give his informations to the security to ease the pressure on her. On April 7th, 2013 Awad received phone thread, the caller said to him” you are traitor and agent to foreigners we will find you”. On April 17th, 2013, Awads apartment was raided while he was out and he found all his personal documents shredded and he found a message written on his flat door saying” we will find you traitor”, Later on Awad found out that the car the attackers used was Toyota Camery, and he managed to trace the plate and he believe its belonging to the Sudanese embassy in Cairo. On May 5th, 2013, he was attacked by a car while six Sudanese men tried to kidnap him near his house. Awad and his family in Sudan are living in fear as the threats from the Sudanese government continue to take place, either to him or his family in Sudan. Southern Kordofan/Nuba mountains NGOs teams at risk: Awad Altayieb said in his interview with Arry, that he received information’s from his source who works inside the security in Kadugli. According to Awad, the source informed him that Ahmed Haroon- the governor of Southern Kordofan state and the wanted suspect by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur- is considering the work of Bushra Gamar the director of HUDO and the Nuba activist who was in prison
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:40:23 +0000
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