16 civilians
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2012-047-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2012
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 12.862807
Longitude: 30.217636
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Sudan
- From Region
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
attempting to deliver a petition on the violence in Southern Kordofan to the UNMIS Special Representative of the Secretary- General and to the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was due to arrive in Khartoum on an official visit to Sudan the following day.
- Type of rights defended
- Accountability & impunity
- Was the victim a civil servant, member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
attempting to deliver a petition on the violence in Southern Kordofan to the UNMIS Special Representative of the Secretary- General and to the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was due to arrive in Khartoum on an official visit to Sudan the following day.
- Engagement with UN body
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- UN Peace Operation / Political mission
- Dates of engagement
- 19 June 2011
- Type of attempted engagement
- Submission of information to UN
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 19 June 2011
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Khartoum
- Reprisal information
On 19 June 2011, 16 civilians were arrested outside of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) headquarters in Khartoum while attempting to deliver a petition on the violence in Southern Kordofan to the UNMIS Special Representative of the Secretary- General and to the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was due to arrive in Khartoum on an official visit to Sudan the following day. The activists were reportedly arrested by plain-clothed national security service personnel at the entrance to the UNMIS compound and driven to Khartoum East Police Station, where they were detained for approximately six hours before being released on bail following intervention by lawyers. One of the victims reported that some of the men arrested had been beaten up at the time of their arrest. All of the arrested activists were charged with the disturbance of public peace and public nuisance under articles 69 and 77 of the Criminal Act of 1991. 12
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Detention/Imprisonment: Release within a day
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0