Update on the Death Sentence on SPLM-N members
3 min readDear All,
Please find the recent statement issued today by the SPLM-N Secretary General.
Thanks
Anwar Elhaj
SPLMN Representative
USA
Yasir Arman: The Security Apparatus’ Denial of Death Sentences Aims to Distract from Growing
Solidarity with the Condemned Detainees.
The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement- North Secretary General, Mr. Yasir Arman, described reports from Sudanese regime’s Security Apparatus, which denied the issuing of secret death sentences on a number of SPLM-N civilians detainees as a move aimed at diverting the international solidarity campaign now gathering momentum.
He added that the published denials by the Security Apparatus that Mr. Abdel-Monim Rahma and nineteen of his comrades, including an under-age detainee, are facing death sentences is an attempt to obscure clear facts from view, and counter the world-wide disapproval and distaste conveyed to the National Congress Party regime by foreign governments and international organizations, who were in contact with SPLM-N leadership, and remain closely following developments of the matter.
He also declared that the SPLM-N values highly the international solidarity campaign now underway, and offered his gratitude and deep appreciation to individuals, groups, governments, organizations, the Sudanese electronic media, columnists and lawyers who are taking part in this humane drive, which so far has compelled the NCP regime to implicate itself in a barefaced lie. No doubt, preparing the way for a retreat on the issue.
He reiterated the SPLM-N demand of Albashir’s criminal regime to release all political detainees- as they are civilians unconnected to any armed actions. Alternatively, if they are involved in wrongdoing, they should be submitted to normal judicial processes, and are afforded the chance to defend themselves and contact their lawyers, and of offering them the right to a public trial open to the media and human rights observers. He also emphasized the need for increased solidarity with Mr. Abdel-Monim Rahma and his fellow detainees. He also called on Sudanese lawyers to join the recently formed legal defence committee, and to utilize this initiative to set up a body for the defense of human rights and democratic freedoms in Sudan.
He finally added that the SPLM-N is hereby issuing a warning to the leadership of NCP: ‘ if these executions are carried out, or should any harm befall the detainees, there will be serious consequences. The war crimes and grave violations committed by the NCP regime against the Sudanese people will sooner or later find redress, and perpetrators will be held accountable. Such gratuitous deaths, as you’re about to commit, beget only more deaths!’
Office of the Secretary General
Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement- North
28th November 2011
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