SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Multiple sources – Sudan files lawsuit against combatting sexual violence official over UNITMAS report

8/4/2022: Multiple sources – Sudan files lawsuit against combatting sexual violence official over UNITMAS report

• Sudan Tribune

• Radio Dabanga

Sudanese authorities filed a complaint against Sulaima Ishaq, the director of the Combating Violence Against Women Unit (CVAW), an agency of the Ministry of Social Development, in relation to a report submitted to the UN Security Council by Volker Perthes, the UN envoy to Sudan, which cited 13 cases of rape by security services on women and girls who participated in anti-coup protests on 19 December 2021. The Sudanese public prosecutor claim that only two cases occurred.

Ishaq said the case was likely lodged by the Sovereign Council or the General Intelligence Service (GIS), and that she is charged with ‘Offences Against The State’ under the Criminal Act upon the accusation of leaking information to Perthes, who also heads the UN Integrated Transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS).