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The human rights organisation Amnesty International has expressed concern about eight opposition political activists and two lawyers who have reportedly been held without charge in solitary confinement for over a month. In an urgent alert issued on Tuesday, Amnesty said one of the detainees, Ghazi Suleiman, a lawyer from the Sudanese Human Rights Group, had been hospitalised twice since his arrest and there was concern that he had been tortured in custody.
President Bashir had amended the National Security Law on 10 December 2000, removing the right to challenge detentions of less than 93 days through the courts, Amnesty stated. Bashir had also extended the State of Emergency, declared in December 1999, until the end of 2001, it added.
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