Kampala, July 16(Darfur24)
The Sudanese Congress Party revealed, on Tuesday, that the party’s leader and human rights activist, Hanan Hassan, was denied the right to obtain a passport by the authorities at the Sudanese embassy in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
Last April, the authorities at the Sudanese embassy in Kampala deprived the citizen, Othman Mukhtar, of obtaining a passport due to his name being on a ban list by the authorities affiliated with the Sudanese army.
The Sudanese Congress Party said in a statement, a copy of which was received by Darfur 24, that “Lawyer Hanan Hassan, a member of the legal sector, was surprised by a ban imposed on her by the prosecution affiliated with the government of Port Sudan, according to which she was deprived of her legal right to obtain a passport, according to what the authorities reported.” At the Sudanese Embassy in Kampala.”
The party described the decision as “unjust and in violation of local and international laws and regulations,” and added that it was “issued by the authority of the Port Sudan government, which lacks legitimacy and competence, and amounts to the crime of confiscating an inherent right of male and female citizens.”
He explained that “the decision is an extension of the systematic targeting of the cadres of the Sudanese Congress Party and all the honorable actors in the December Revolution with the aim of liquidating and bulldozing it through the mechanism of the April 15 war, which was ignited by the remnants of the former regime who held the reins of the decisions of the Port Sudan government.”
The statement stressed opposition to the decision through all legal means, pointing out that such violations will only increase the party and its membership steadfastness in opposing tyranny and totalitarianism, and doing everything possible to stop and end the war.
He stressed his complete adherence to bias towards the interests of our people, and not to budge from his principled and declared positions of not supporting either side of the fighting, no matter how great the threats are and how loud the language of blackmail and betrayal is by the remnants of the former regime.
Last April, the Darfur Bar Association revealed that it had received several complaints from Sudanese citizens from different regions in Sudan and belonging to several ethnicities, about violations committed against them by a team from the Sudanese Passport Police who arrived in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, to obtain and renew the passports of Sudanese who… They are there.