In Brief Sidig Noreen Ali Abdalla, a professor at West Kordofan University who served as a supervisor of the Greater Darfur Students' Association, was arrested on January 16, 2014 for his alleged advocacy on the situation in Darfur. Formal charges have yet to be pressed. Case History Despite the lack of charges, Abdalla has been detained without charge by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in El-Obeid, town in the state of North Kordofan. The peri

On August 29, 2017, Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir granted a pardon to Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, an engineering professor at the University of Khartoum, who was charged with six offences, some of which were punishable by death. As we reported Mudawi Ibrahim Adam was arrested by security forces in December 2016 as part of a crackdown against opposition leaders and activists. Prosecutors had accused Ibrahim Adam of “being among activists who were running a criminal organization a

On May 11, 2017, Mudawi Ibrahim was charged with undermining the constitutional system and waging war against the State. Both charges potentially carry the death penalty. Ibrahim is an internationally recognized human rights defender who won the inaugural 2005 Front Line Defenders Award. He is a professor of engineering at the University of Khartoum, runs his own engineering company, and is the founder and chairman of the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO). First De

People in Birkat Seira in North Darfur demonstrated against the murder of a university student by a militiaman on Tuesday. Demonstrators reportedly torched the military headquarters. University of Nyala engineering student Fadul Harun Yousif was killed by a member of a paramilitary group in the market in Birkat Seira market when the militiaman opened fire. Yousif was shot in the head. Endangered Scholars Worldwide is deeply concerned about the ongoing violence toward and targ

Endangered Scholars Worldwide is gravely concerned for the safety of 12 Sudanese student activists who were detained without charges after protests in Khartoum university. The National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested 10 activists on May 5 while they were in a meeting at the office of a prominent human rights lawyer, The Middle East Online reported. Two other students were detained on May 7 in a village outside Khartoum. Students from the University of Kharto

Thousands of Sudanese students have entered their second day of protests following the death of a student in North Kordofan, central Sudan. Abubakar Hassan, 18, was killed on Monday at Kordofan University by a gunshot wound to the head after intelligence agents opened fire on students taking part in a peaceful march. The students were walking to the student union building to nominate proopposition candidates for their campus elections, said Amnesty International. A further 27