Human rights appeals and fears that Sudan will hand over Egyptian opponents

Ahmed Ramadan - Al-Jazeera Net

Human rights organizations, activists, and families of Egyptian detainees in Sudan have expressed their fear that Khartoum will hand over the detainees to Cairo, especially as they are against the regime of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

According to pages and accounts interested in the affairs of detainees in Egypt, dozens of Egyptians residing in Sudan were arrested last March, following the visit of General Hamidati, the Vice-President of the Sudanese Council of Sovereignty to Egypt, and his meeting with President Sisi and Director of the General Intelligence Agency, General Abbas Kamel, without clarifying the Sudanese charges To them or the reasons for their arrest.

Since the military coup that Sisi led in the summer of 2013 when he was defense minister, hundreds of Egyptian opponents have fled to Sudan for fear of arrest, and over time, most of them left Sudan to several countries, especially Turkey.

The Arab Organization for Human Rights in Britain quoted the wife of one of the Egyptians detained in Sudan, that her husband was "arrested two months ago by Sudanese security, and since the date of his arrest, communication with him has been completely interrupted, and the Sudanese authorities have refused to disclose the reason or the location of his detention, and no charges have been brought against him. Official, or to be included in the judicial investigation lists. "

She explained that she had received a message from the family of one of the people who had been arrested with her husband, whose family had been able to visit him in a prison in Sudan, and told her that her husband had been interrogated "by Egyptian intelligence officers for hours, and then he was transferred to an unknown location with a number of other detainees." , In preparation for his deportation to Egypt. "

For its part, the director of the Egyptian Coordination for Rights and Freedoms Heba Hassan said that a few days ago, news came from some families of Egyptians detained by the Sudanese authorities about steps taken by Khartoum to hand over a number of these detainees to Egypt, and actually transfer them to a place affiliated with Sudanese security for this purpose.

"We are very afraid to hand these young people over to the Egyptian authorities, as no one knows the bad human rights situation and the violations committed against the opponents, but rather it extends to anyone who expresses a different opinion about what the Egyptian regime wants, as well as precedents dealing with the regime specifically with those who were handed over," Heba added. In recent years. "

"It is unfortunate that the procedures for extraditing the Egyptian opponents are carried out despite the Convention against Torture, which prohibits the extradition of a person to a country that is predominantly believed to be harmed, subjected to illegal procedures, torture and the presence of human rights violations, which is fully applicable to the Egyptian case, according to local and international reports."

And in mid-April last, the British "Middle East" website published a report in which he revealed Khartoum's arrest of Egyptian opponents, courtesy of the regime of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, considering that this indicates the warmth of relations between the two countries, and that the handover is the result of security cooperation between them.

In turn, former Egyptian parliamentarian Azab Mustafa expressed his dissatisfaction with the rumors about reports that the Sudanese authorities surrendered Egyptian opponents, stressing that since the military coup in Egypt, the regime of former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir refused to hand over any of the Egyptian opponents on his lands, despite the pressures he was subjected to before. The Egyptian regime and its regional backers.

Mustafa pointed out that since the revolution in Sudan and the presence of the Military Sovereignty Council in power, the Egyptian regime has intensified its pressures, taking advantage of the economic conditions that Sudan is going through to hand over opponents, stressing that there are pressures exerted by the Sudanese political parties and some clerics to prevent the extradition of Egyptian detainees.

"The Sudanese security authorities must know that those who are extradited to Egypt are either liquidated outside the framework of the law, or are subjected to enforced disappearance and torture, or face the death penalty, as there are no fair trials in Egypt, where the rulings come wrapped, and the Egyptian judiciary has become a game In the hands of the military. "

The former parliamentarian ruled out the handing over of the Sudanese authorities to Egyptian detainees, despite the pressures it faces from Cairo.

Activists on social networking sites also launched a campaign titled "#No extradition to Egyptians from Sudan" to demand that the Egyptian detainees in Sudan be handed over to the Egyptian authorities.

Tweeters appealed to the Sudanese revolutionary forces to intervene to prevent extradition, fearing for the lives of the detainees.

Others recalled the slogans of the Sudanese revolution that was attacking the Sisi regime in Egypt, wondering at the silence on the issue of handing over the detainees. Activists have shared pictures of Egyptian detainees in Sudan.