By RFIPosted on 11-10-2019Modified on 11-10-2019 at 14:53
This is a historic first in Sudan: a woman has just been appointed head of the Supreme Court. Neemat Abdallah Mohamed Khair is an experienced judge and known for his integrity. It has been chosen while for weeks demonstrations claim a more independent justice in the country.
Neemat Abdallah Mohamed Khair has worked in the judicial sector since the 1980s. Unlike other judges, who have long served the interests of the former regime, the magistrate has always been neutral.
Former chief of administrative affairs of the Supreme Court, she is particularly known for a judgment in November 2016, which saved a church in Omdurman, near Khartoum. A businessman close to the government wanted to destroy the building. The decision made by the judge stopped the project.
Independent personalities
His arrival falls at the same time as that of Tag Alsir Ali Alhibir. This respected former lawyer becomes Attorney General. What bring new blood to the top of the judicial sector. Especially since for several weeks, pro-democracy activists demanding that the occupants of these positions be replaced because of their links with the old regime.
Under Omar al-Bashir , the opposition accused justice of being under the orders of the former president, who used the magistrates as tools to suppress dissent and lock up opponents. The demonstrators demanded independent personalities before the justice system would prosecute members of the former regime and those responsible for the crimes committed after the fall of Omar al-Bashir.
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