UN rights chief urges Sudan's military to 'step back' and release politicians and protesters

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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged Sudan’s military to “step back” and to release all those detained during and since the military coup in October, during a special session of the UN’s Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on Friday.

The top UN human rights official made a direct plea to Sudanese military leaders. “I urge Sudan’s military leaders, and their backers, to step back in order to allow the country to return to the path of progress towards institutional and legal reforms.”

Bachalet outlined arrests and raids on protesters and politicians and asked for the release of those arrested during the coup.

“The whereabouts of most of those arrested remains unknown, and they have been held incommunicado, with no access to lawyers or their relatives – enforced disappearances compounding the gravity of their arbitrary arrests. As the Security Council called for last week and the Secretary-General reiterated yesterday, all those arrested and detained since the military takeover should be immediately released,” she said.

The special session of the Human Rights Council was called amid a political crisis triggered by al-Burhan’s dissolution of the Sovereign Council as well as the Cabinet, and the declaration of the state of emergency on October 25th.

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