Editing Human rights in Sudan (section)

==Persecution of human rights advocates==
In the period from 2003 to 2011, [[Mudawi Ibrahim Adam]] was repeatedly arrested for charges which were related to his human rights work with the group [[Sudan Social Development Organization]].<ref name="AI">{{cite web |url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa26610.pdf |title=Further information on UA 266/10 (23 December 2010) – Prisoner of conscience/Unfair trial |date=27 January 2011 |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref><ref name="AI2">{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr54/026/2005/en/ |title=UA 47/05 Detention without charge/Fear for safety/Prisoner of conscience/Possible prisoner of conscience |date=24 February 2005 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> These arrests were protested by groups including [[Human Rights Watch]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/en/news/2004/03/08/sudan-rights-defenders-darfur-detained |title=Sudan: Rights Defenders in Darfur Detained |date=8 March 2004 |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> [[Front Line (NGO)|Front Line]],<ref name="FL">{{cite web |url=http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/14110 |title=Sudan – Human rights defender Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam imprisoned in latest clampdown on human rights defenders and civil society activists. |author=Jim Loughran |publisher=[[Front Line (NGO)|Front Line]] |access-date=24 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603132311/http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/14110 |archive-date=3 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[Amnesty International]], the latter of whom named him a "[[prisoner of conscience]]."<ref name="AI2"/>

On 5 March 2009, the same day that President [[Omar al-Bashir]] was indicted by the ICC, the Sudanese government ordered the closure of SUDO, and its offices were taken over by state security forces.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |url=http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/sudan-closes-a-domestic-aid-group/ |title=Sudan closes a domestic aid group |author=Nicholas Kristof |date=5 March 2009 |newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=24 April 2011}}</ref> The ''New York Times'' reported that the letter closing the offices "came from the Humanitarian Affairs Commission, which is run by [[Ahmed Haroun]], one of the people facing an arrest warrant from the [[International Criminal Court]] for mass slaughter in Darfur."<ref name="NYT" /> The Sudanese government simultaneously expelled "the [[International Rescue Committee]], [[Oxfam UK]], [[CARE (relief agency)|CARE]], [[Mercy Corps]] and the Dutch section of [[Doctors Without Borders]].<ref name="NYT"/> Mudawi and SUDO appealed their closure in court, winning the appeal in April 2010.<ref name="FL"/><ref name="SUDO"/> However, according to a 2011 SUDO press release, the organization remains effectively closed: "in Sudan you can win a case but nothing changes. SUDO’s offices remained locked, its assets remained frozen, and the organization in Sudan was not allowed to resume operations."<ref name="SUDO">{{cite web |url=http://www.sudantribune.com/SUDO-denounces-Sudan-s-murky,37762 |title=MURKY JUSTICE: AFTER RELEASE OF SUDO CHAIR, APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION MUST BE ALLOWED AND SUDO PERMITTED TO OPERATE NORMALLY |date=26 January 2011 |publisher=Sudan Social Development Organization |access-date=24 April 2011 |archive-date=14 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180514213911/http://www.sudantribune.com/SUDO-denounces-Sudan-s-murky,37762 |url-status=dead }}</ref>