Cairo: 12/02/02.

Sudan

Suspension & Dismissal of Young Activists

The Sudanese authorities, as usual, still hold their tight grip on the
civil and peaceful activities, and harass all those who conduct them in an
administrative hegemony that is totally unjustified. These activities are
not legally banned in Sudan, and are accepted according to the international
declarations and treaties that the Sudanese Government had previously signed
and ratified.

News reached the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists that the
Sudanese first -year Computer Science student at the college of Omdurman,
Tahani Ibrahim Ahmed, was suspended for 12 months from the College on 2nd
February, 2002 for carrying out human rights activities. Ms. Tahani, as
well, is a member of the Sudanese Victims of Torture Group (SVTG).

Ms. Tahani was suspended on the background of forming a human rights
group together with other students in her university and organizing a
symposium to commemorate the international day for human rights, in which
she spoke about women’s rights and CEDAW (Convention for the Elimination of
Discrimination Against Women).

Before being re-admitted to the College, the Ms. Tahani will have to
sign a pledge to behave in accordance with the Student Discipline and Code
of Conduct Act (2002) which prohibits students from taking part in human
rights and political organizing. If she continues to pursue these
activities, the College has warned that she will be dismissed.

In addition to these violations committed against Ms. Tahani, the
University also suspended the following students: Adam Fadl Allah Adam ( Law
Student), Husam El-Din Abdullah (Medical Student), Allaa El-Din Mustafa
Mohamed Ali (Agriculture Student), Ghosai El-Nour Mohamed Ahmed (Agriculture
Student), and finally Mohamed Al-Hadi Awad Suliman (Economics Student). They
were all suspended last January the 23rd, 2002, on the background of their
last year's peaceful Democratic Front's Symposium.

The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists deeply condemns what has
been happening against the Sudanese Students, being it suspension,
dismissal, detention, or even sending them to the war at the South. These
procedures Violate the legal credibility and frustrate the simplest human
rights, as well as all the international covenants that the Sudanese
Government signed and ratified, especially the "International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights", and the "International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights".

In these regards, the Arab Program for Human Rights Activists calls upon
the Sudanese authorities to reinstate the mentioned students as they are the
educated assets that Sudan's future can count on, and in accordance with the
fundamental rights and freedoms that have been stated in the Universal
Declaration for Human Rights and the two International Covenants.

Respects

Arab Program For Human Rights Activists
25 Ibrahim Ibn El Mahdy St.
7th District, Nasr City
Cairo, Egypt
Tel: 002 02 4041185
Fax: 002 02 4039954
www.aphra.org
[email protected]

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