OHCHR / SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS

Ahead of mass protests planned next week to mark one year since the 25 October coup in Sudan, a UN Human Rights spokesperson called on Sudanese authorities to ensure that people can exercise their rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of opinion, and expression and to ensure that security forces refrain from use of force. UNTV CH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:08
• Production Date: 21 October 2022
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: RAVINA SHAMDASANI
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: HUMAN RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 2962036
• Parent Id: 2962036
• Alternate Title: unifeed221021h

Description

STORY: OHCHR / SUDAN HUMAN RIGHTS
TRT: 1:08
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 21 OCTOBER 2022, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior Palais des Nations, Geneva
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Ahead of mass protests planned next week to mark one year since the 25 October coup, we call on the Sudanese authorities to ensure that people can exercise their rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of opinion, and expression, and to ensure that security forces refrain from use of force, which has marred previous protests. People’s expression of longstanding grievances must be facilitated rather than suppressed.”
4. Med shot, briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“We urge the military authorities to ensure that ongoing investigations into human rights violations committed following the coup are expedited and conducted in full compliance with international norms and standards, and that all those found responsible are held to account.”
6. Med shot, briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
8. “We once again remind the Sudanese authorities that the right to peaceful assembly is protected under international human rights law, including under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Sudan is a State Party.”

Storyline

At the bi-weekly press briefing in Geneva, UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani made the following statement on Sudan.

“Ahead of mass protests planned next week to mark one year since the 25 October coup, we call on the Sudanese authorities to ensure that people can exercise their rights to peaceful assembly, freedom of opinion, and expression, and to ensure that security forces refrain from use of force, which has marred previous protests. People’s expression of longstanding grievances must be facilitated rather than suppressed,” Shamdasani said.

“We urge the military authorities to ensure that ongoing investigations into human rights violations committed following the coup are expedited and conducted in full compliance with international norms and standards, and that all those found responsible are held to account” she said.

“We once again remind the Sudanese authorities that the right to peaceful assembly is protected under international human rights law, including under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Sudan is a State Party” said Shamdasani in conclusion.