In a statement released today, Human Rights Watch called on the Sudanese government to release six members of the opposition parties that were detained in poor conditions, without access to medical care or legal aid.
Human Rights Watch criticised the Sudanese security agencies for habitually denying detainees their fundamental due process rights, hence making detentions arbitrary and unlawful.
Commenting on the current detention of six opposition politicians, the Human Rights Watch Africa director, Daniel Bekele, said ,
“these weeks-long detentions violating due process rights underscore the need for a major overhaul of Sudan’s national security agencies and the laws that govern them.”
“Sudan should uphold protections in its own constitution as well as in the international human rights treaties it has signed.”