Press Release

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LETTER OF SOLIDARITY - UPDATE 

Date:  Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:29:37 -0500

 Please copy this letter and paste it in your email, place your name at the bottom, and circulate as widely as you can. Thank you.

TO THE SUDANESE IN DIASPORA AND ALL FRIENDS OF SUDAN

Mr. Alfred Taban is a professional Sudanese journalist whose arrest is a gross human rights violation. It is a new evidence the NIF terrorist rule, by its very non-civilized nature, will never respect the freedom of the Press or the rights of journalists. Mr. Taban  was brutally arrested by the security forces with many other Christians who were peacefully protesting the government's irresponsible attitude towards the holy festival of Easter. The arrest and torture of Sudanese Christians in the streets of Khartoum and the further destruction of the Cathedral are unprecedented acts of religious intolerance and persecution of citizens. This testify to the savage nature and practice of the NIF rulers or ideologues.

The Government of Sudan must release Mr. Alfred Taban immediately from jail, insure his safety and professional activity, and compensate him and all others arrested, tortured, or injured according to law.

SHRO-Cairo Board of Trust and Executive Committee strongly urge the International Community, in general, and the United Nations Human Rights Commission, in particular, to send an International Committee with Christian and Muslim Delegates to investigate Sudan Government's acts of religious intolerance and the aggressive attacks this government launched under the direct command of its senior official Ali Osman Taha on the Sudanese Christians' peaceful and legitimate celebrations of Easter. The findings of this Committee should be immediately released to the whole world.

As emphasized by SHRO-Washington, DC, the United Nations Security Council is strongly urged to consider stronger sanctions on Sudan Government for the gross human rights violations that persecute the Sudanese Christian citizens for no reason in the Capital of Sudan.

Please send a Letter of Solidarity  to Mr. Taban, the Sudanese sisters and brothers arrested in the Easter Rally, and their respectful family members and Churches in Khartoum. Express your deep concern for the safety, health, and human rights of these Sudanese citizens with your strong protest to the officials of Sudan Government: Omer Al-Bashir and his deputy Ali Osman Taha at the Republican Palace, Abdel-Rahim Hussain their minister of interior, and Yasin Mohamed Osman, their minister of justice.

Please circulate this Letter of Solidarity among your friends, Christians, Muslims, or other faith.

(signed)

SHRO-Cairo Board of Trust and Executive Committee
Mahgoub El-Tigani, President
Abedon Agaw, Deputy President
Mohamed Hassan Daoud, Secretary General
Kamal Ramadan, Deputy Secretary General
Salah Galal, Treasurer
Igbal Osman, Deputy Treasurer
Members:
Mary Jones
Hamouda Fathel Rahman
Suliman Adam Bakhiet
Mohamed Mustafa El-Hori
Nyal Lol Fai
Ibrahim Saeed Mohamed Taha
Zakaria Deing Magouk
Zeinab Osman Al-Hussain
Mohamed Adarob Mohamed Ahmed
Seif El-Nasr Idris
Abdalla Ibrahim Nugud
Isam Eddin Mohamed El-Jack
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In Solidarity, We add Our Strong Support:

Mohamed Nagi (France)
Mahmoud Amin Siddig (USA)
Kidi Ukech (Helsinki, Finland)
Ahmed Elyas Elameer (USA)
Sisto Olur Erista (finland)
Gara Al-Hussain (UK)
Muna Khugali (UK)
Nasser Hamid (USA)
Isam Siddig (USA)
Manal Khugali (USA)
Ahmed Barsham (USA)
Sidgi Kaballo (UK)
Abdel-Moniem Al-Gizouli (USA)
Jamal Mahgoub (USA)
Magdi Elobeid (USA)
Tamadir SheikhEddin (USA)
Badreldin Ahmed Musa (USA)
Abdalla Gasmelseed (USA)
Nabil Yacoub
Organization for Human Rights in Arab States (Germany)
Abdalla Mohammed Schrieb
Ahmed Eldindrawi (Germany)
Gerry Hale (USA)
Sondra Hale (USA)
Hassan Abuzaid (UK)
Osman Taha (UK)
Muna Abdelgadir (UK)
Nazik Elgaddal (USA)
Adlan Abdelaziz (USA)
haitham El-noush
Nuraddin Manan, SHRO-Washington, DC (USA)
Asma Abdelhafiz (USA)
Peter Verney (UK)
Muaz M. Ataalsid (USA)
Souad Ali (USA)
Abdullahi Gallab (USA)
Al-Sudan Center for Democracy, Peace and Human Rights (USA)
Ali Elnadif (Holland)
 Marlyn Tadros (USA/Egypt)