Khartoum: Rhino – The Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces (Taqaddom) refuted on Tuesday the allegations of the Public Prosecution about the arrest of former Prime Minister Abdullah Hamdok’s lawyer and his comrades from the Coordination’s leadership.
On October 12, 2024, the Port Sudan Public Prosecution issued a statement in response to the statement of the legal committee of the Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces (Taqaddam). The statement described the committee as “a party that called itself a legal committee,” which the coordination considered “a formula that takes the prosecution out of its legal framework and replaces it with a political discourse that expresses its orientation and loyalty.” It added that the prosecution’s statement reveals its political role in confronting the opponents of the regime to which it belongs.
The coordination said in a statement on Tuesday that the prosecution’s response to the legal committee’s statement on the case of lawyer Montaser Abdullah contains many incorrect information, adding: “Mr. Montaser was arrested on September 5, 2024, by an entity called the ‘security cell’ and was interrogated by an officer from the armed forces. His detention continued until the complaint was opened on October 3, 2024, which means he was illegally detained for about a month. This is something that the prosecution deliberately ignored and even tried to hide in its misleading response regarding the date of his arrest”.
The committee affirmed that it will stand against any measures that violate the rights of Mr. Montaser and all those who have been subjected to violations at the hands of the security services, and that it will continue to monitor all violations committed to ensure that the perpetrators do not go unpunished. The organization announced that it will escalate these cases through all legitimate legal means before regional and international organizations concerned with human rights and international humanitarian law.
The statement reads: “What happened clearly indicates that the complaint, which was opened a month after the arrest, was only a way to justify the unlawful detention and find a legal basis for subsequent procedures that have already taken place against lawyer Montaser. The prosecution abandoned its legal duty to hold accountable those who committed this crime against him, and instead sought to legitimize the wrongful actions. The prosecution claimed that there is “preliminary evidence” against him, without clarifying the articles of accusation or the crime he committed, which confirms that there is no crime at all and that what happened and is still going on is just an illegal arrest, which the prosecution gave a legal cover to with a baseless complaint).
Since the outbreak of the April 15 war, the public prosecution continues to violate its legal duties, covering up the crimes committed by the security services, and attempting to legitimize them by opening sham complaints that make it an impartial party, working to serve the regime to which it belongs and to which it owes its loyalty and obedience.
