Press
Release
3 January, 2002
SHRO-Cairo
Statement in the Rememberance Day of the Sudanese Human Rights Leader
Abdel-Wahab Sinada
With deep grief and
sincere sadness, the SHRO-Cairo Board of Trust, Executive Committee, and
Members in Sudan and in the Diaspora received the news on the departure
of Dr. Abdel-Wahab Sinada, the distinguished leader of the Sudanese Trades
Unions Movement and a great educator of the Sudanese Human Rights Movement.
Most of our membership had personally known Dr. Sinada, years before SHRO-Cairo
was launched in exile, as a brilliant leader of the Sudanese free labor
unions' movement. Most of us knew him by heart as man of refined ethics
and Sufi commitments as well as a great defender of the unions' independence
from State authority. Throughout long succeeding decades of our People's
striving to insure democracy, Dr. Abdel-Wahab played a significant role
in the popular effort to strengthen the unions. He was a dedicated professional
as well as a strong supporter of the progressive struggles for the fair
peace, regular democracy, human rights, and Civil Society.
Many Sudanese and non-Sudanese human rights activists have closely known
the great leader Dr. Sinada through his continuous service of the movement
in the Diaspora. He was an enlightening educator, a genuine source of
moral support and encouragement, and a true figure of the unions' democratic
movement in the regional and international arena as a strategic part of
the Sudanese critical national agenda.
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