A Resounding Fall for the Army and the Islamic Movement… Reactions to the Attorney General’s Request for Interpol to Arrest Political Leaders
The Attorney General affiliated with the Sudanese military authority, controlled by supporters of former President Omar al-Bashir’s regime and the Islamic movement, is exploiting the law to settle political scores with civil forces opposed to the war.
Sudanese Attorney General Al-Fatih Tayfour submitted a request to Interpol for red notices against several leaders of civil political forces, following accusations from the Sudanese army against them on several charges, including “crimes against the state, undermining the constitutional order, war crimes, and genocide.”
In press statements, the Attorney General stated that he would try the Sudanese politicians in absentia if they could not attend the city of Port Sudan, which the Sudanese army has taken as an alternative capital to Khartoum, now a battlefield.
Legal expert Moaz Hadra stated that the Attorney General acknowledged that he “would try politicians for criminal offenses, despite the absence of any evidence, facts, or actions committed by these politicians except for their calls to stop the war.”
Hadra added on his Facebook page that “if the Attorney General peeked outside his office building, he would find defendants who undermined the constitutional order present in the building housing members of the Sovereignty Council, some also present in what is called the Council of Ministers of the de facto government.”
Regarding the Attorney General’s request to Interpol to detain leaders of “Taqaddum,” Hadra questioned: “Did the Attorney General not know that Interpol, according to Article 30 of its founding convention, does not intervene in politically, religiously, or militarily motivated cases?”
He mentioned that it would have been more appropriate for the Attorney General, instead of engaging in his futile efforts concerning a red notice for Interpol to arrest politicians, to arrest the defendants from the previous regime and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood present before his eyes in Port Sudan, the Nile, and the North, some of whom are even wanted by the International Criminal Court.
For his part, journalist and political analyst Abou Abidah Barghouth considered the accusations made by the Attorney General affiliated with the Sudanese army against civil forces to be without merit, as those who should be legally pursued are the ones who ignited the war and incited its continuation, and they now stand alongside the army, controlling its decisions.
Barghouth stated in a press statement: “What the Attorney General is talking about are political issues that the previous Bashir regime used to convert into criminal cases, exploiting the law through the judicial apparatuses it controls,” clarifying that what is happening now is an extension of those policies practiced during the previous era.
Barghouth considered that everything the Attorney General is doing is a storm in a teacup, in an attempt to cover up the serious crimes committed by the Sudanese army against the civilians of the Sudanese people.
The Legal and Human Rights Committee of the Coordination of Civil Democratic Forces announced that it had submitted an official memorandum to the General Secretariat of Interpol and the Commission for the Control of Interpol Files (CCF), demanding the rejection of the request submitted by the Port Sudan Prosecutor’s Office for a red notice against several of its leaders, headed by the president of the leading authority, Dr. Abdullah Hamdok.
Taqaddum stated in its memorandum, which was seen by Erem News, that the accusations against its leaders are of a political and malicious nature, including accusations of “undermining the constitutional order, genocide, and incitement against the state.”
