426:(NISS) agents, arrived at his home in Khartoum just before midnight on Saturday, 6 December. Although his family was not informed of the reasons for the arrest, it is believed he was arrested for signing, the Sudan Call, a statement signed by representatives from political and armed opposition parties across the country, to work towards the ending of the conflicts in Sudan in
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In 2018, shortly after the death of Medani, the Amin Mekki Medani
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Khartoum. On 22 December, Medani was finally permitted to meet with his lawyers and two days later with his family. On January 10, 2015, he was charged under Article 50 (undermining the constitutional system) and Article 51 (waging war against the state) in the 1991 Criminal Code. His trial
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In 1976, having returned to
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On August 31, 2018, after being denied permission to leave the country by the government and suffering from a long battle with heart disease and kidney failure, Medani died. His death was mourned as a loss for the fight for human rights and democracy. The US, British, French, and
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After his departure from Egypt, Medani played a role in the establishment and chairmanship of the field office of the Office of the
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 1996, and eventually went on to serve as the head of Office of the
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Amin Mekki Medani joined
Eltigani Elkarib in establishing one of the leading law firms in the country, Elkarib & Medani. The firm works in a variety of legal cases and its clients include the Kenana Sugar Company, the Haggar Group,
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and build a foundation for a lasting democracy based on equal citizenship and comprehensive peace. He had been held incommunicado in an unknown location until 21 December 2014, when Medani was transferred to
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in Iraq as well as
Afghanistan, and a Regional Representative for the OHCHR in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the 1991 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Award for Human Rights Monitoring and 1991 Recipient of the
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dictatorship, he served in the
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before a special court created under the 1991 anti-terror law started on
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governments, as well as various other international and regional bodies and public figures published statements mourning his loss.
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held in Addis Ababa, Medani, who had signed the document as
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