Sudan: denial of medical care is putting political prisoners’ lives at risk: opposition
March 24, 2019 (KHARTOUM) – The opposition Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) expressed deep concern about the situation of political detainees in El-Obeid prison of North Kordofan state saying that they are in critical health conditions requiring urgent medical care.
The detainees are Mohamed Suleiman Tali, of the Sudanese Communist Party, Mus’ab al-Shafei Ahmed and Hafez Oreibi of the Sudanese Congress Party.
“We in the Sudanese Congress party are deeply concerned about the health and life of these prisoners because of their deteriorating health. Some of them are suffering from complications of kidney disease and associated infections that may threaten their lives in the absence of the lowest standards of health safety,” Bakhit said in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune.
The SCoP Human Rights Secretariat called on the Sudanese administration of prisons to allow the sick detainees access to health care.
The opposition party further urged the prison authorities not to get involved in the political conflict and to play their roles and duties in accordance with the law rather than implementing the political agenda of the ruling regime.
The party further called on human rights groups, Sudanese and friendly countries and peoples to join hands with sick detainees at risk of death as a result of the denial of medical care.
(ST)