Press Release

SHRO-Cairo Statement on the Release of Dr. Toby Maduot

August 4, 2002

The Sudan Human Rights Organization Cairo Branch (SHRO-Cairo) received good news from Dr. Maduot’s family about his release from security jail in Khartoum

The Organization is grateful to the sisterly support of the Sudanese People and the Sudan Friends who expressed grave concerns for the arbitrary arrest and detention of this prominent leader , as they strongly called for the immediate release, medical attention, and the insurance of the other human rights of Dr. Maduot, the SANU leader and prominent human rights activist.

The Organization is aware that the release of Dr. Maduot is a good sign that further indicates the need to create the climate conducive to negotiating the permanent and just peace in accordance with the Sudanese legitimate consensus to enjoy democratic popular participation to establish regular democracy, even distribution of national wealth, and constitutional state authority with respect to the center-region relations.

The organization takes this opportunity to ask the Government of Sudan to release all the other Sudanese individuals who have been arbitrarily arrested or detained by security warrants in gross violation of the rule of law and the other international human rights norms.