28.05.2008 - Source: Amnesty International

National intelligence and security service (NISS), military intelligence and police continued to commit human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, torture and ill-treatment in 2007 ("Annual Report 2008") [ID 23353]

"The national intelligence and security service (NISS), military intelligence and police continued to commit human rights violations, including arbitrary arrests, torture and ill-treatment, and use of excessive force.

Political detainees, criminal suspects, Darfuris and others from marginalized areas, and students in Khartoum were routinely subjected to torture and ill-treatment.

Floggings continued to be imposed for a variety of public order offences including unlawful sexual intercourse and trading in alcohol.

Demonstrations were frequently repressed using excessive force."

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05.05.2008 - Source: Freedom House

Criminal law is based on Sharia and provides for punishments such as flogging and amputation ("The Worst of the Worst: The World's Most Repressive Societies 2008") [ID 23574]

"Sudanese criminal law is based on Sharia and provides for punishments such as flogging and amputation, although non-Muslim southern states are not subject to Sharia."

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05.2008 - Source: Sudan Organisation Against Torture

The law provides for punishment specifically tailored towards juveniles ("Alternative Report To Sudan’s Periodic Report Before the 43rd Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Swaziland, May 2008)") [ID 23964]

"[...] Article 47 of the Criminal Act 1991 provides for punishments specifically tailored towards juveniles.

These punishments, which are available for courts to use in cases where an individual is convicted of committing a crime when he or she was between the ages of 7 and 18, include up to 20 lashes [...].

The other punishments listed under Article 47 are: reprimanding the juvenile in question in the presence of a guardian; handing the juvenile over to a guardian who will undertake to "properly look after" him or her; putting the juvenile under "social supervision" for one to two years; and detaining the juvenile in one of the "reformation and social welfare institutions" for two to five years."

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11.03.2008 - Source: US Department of State

In accordance with Shari'a, the Criminal Act provides for physical punishments, including various forms of cruel and inhuman punishment ("Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2007") [ID 22820]

"In accordance with Shari'a (Islamic law), the Criminal Act provides for physical punishments, including flogging, amputation, stoning, and crucifixion--the public display of a body after execution.

Under the interim constitution, the government officially exempts the 10 southern states from Shari'a law, although its application in the south still occurred on an ad-hoc basis, and traditional customary law was frequently applied against defendants.

Traditional or customary courts in the south routinely imprisoned women for lengthy pretrial detention on allegations of adultery.

Northern courts routinely imposed flogging, especially for production of alcohol."

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23.05.2007 - Source: Amnesty International

In 2006, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments imposed for offences including brewing of alcohol or adultery ("Annual Report 2007") [ID 20084]

"Cruel, inhuman or degrading punishments such as flogging were imposed for offences including the brewing of alcohol or adultery."

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20.04.2006 - Source: Austrian Centre for Country of Origin and Asylum Research and Documentation

Amputations and cross-amputations executed less frequently than in past; flogging, lashing and whipping remain common ("10th European Country of Origin Infomation Seminar Budapest, 1 - 2 December 2005: Final Report on Sudan") [#49770],  [ID 18926]

"At the moment, amputations and cross-amputations, which are foreseen as punishment under the sharia-inspired law, appear to be executed much less frequently than in the past. However, there is very little information about how many of these cruel and inhuman punishments are still being meted out. What we know for sure is that flogging, lashing and whipping are very common and are being administered every day and very quickly."

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