Open Letter Concerning the Crackdown on Peaceful Protests and the Wave of Arbitrary Arrests and Continued Incommunicado Detentions by Sudanese Government Forces

To: UN Human Rights Committee UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Mr. David Kaye; UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mr. Aristide Nononsi UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Ms. Annalisa Ciampi UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mr. Michel Forst Honourable Commissioners, We, the undersigned Sudanese, African and international organisations, write to you in your capacities…

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