Activists Hand Over To Congress A Memorandum On Sudanese Security Abuses Against Peaceful Demonstrators
Sudanese human rights activists meet 13 lawmakers including Somali President Elhan Omar
02-02-2019 09:20 PM
Rafidah Yassin A
delegation of Sudanese jurists and activists met with members of Congress on Thursday and Friday on developments in Sudan.
Representatives of the US human rights organization TASSC and officials from the Sudanese Human Rights Network in Washington met with a number of activists, artists and professionals, including plastic artist Dafallah al-Shafei, singer Amal al-Nur, activist Hajar al-Sheikh, Dr. Salwa al-Shwaie and Mohammed Saif al-Din Mo in Virginia, Of Republican and Democratic members of Congress over the course of two days, most notably Elhan Omar, the US House of Representatives Representative of Somali origin from Minnesota and the first Muslim in a legislative council, as well as Congressman Amy Pira of California.
“The sheikh said in private statements
These meetings with members of Congress are aimed at clarifying the picture on the details of the events in Sudan and providing information and statistics on the detainees, the injured and those who have been subjected to torture and exposing the human rights violations committed by the Sudanese security services through documented photographs and video showing the use of snipers, live bullets, rubber bullets, Violence against unarmed demonstrators, as well as house raids, attacks and tear gas canisters in hospitals and in homes.
Hagar al-Sheikh, a member of the group, said members of Congress promised to take action on the situation in Sudan during the coming meetings and promised to propose a hearing in Congress on the situation in Sudan in the coming weeks. Towards peaceful demonstrators.
Sheikh said that the meeting with members of Congress also touched on the American position to accept the presence of Chargé d’affaires in Sudan in Washington, Mohammed Atta, accusing him of crimes against humanity during his presidency of the National Security and Intelligence in Sudan.
A number of members of Congress promised to sign a new request to President Donald Trump to expel Ambassador Mohammed Atta from the US territories for his direct involvement in the killing of dozens of demonstrators in the September 2000 attacks.
In December, Sen. Bob Menendez, a member of the House Committee on Foreign Relations and Senator Patrick Leahy, deputy director general of the Appropriations Committee, asked in a letter to Trump To the expulsion and possible punishment of the Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Sudan in Washington, considering that allowing Atta to work as a diplomat in the United States is an affront to American values and national interests.