A threat to the Director of the ACIJLP

because of his
support to the role of the International Criminal Court on Darfur crisis

Cairo, 26^th of October 2008 

Mr. Nasser Amin, Director of the Arab Center for the Independence of the judiciary and the legal profession (ACIJLP), received on Saturday, 25 October 2008, a strong threat from a Sudanese group in Cairo calling its self (Middle East Mujahedeen in Cairo) through the Center’s e-mail.

The email included a threat to Mr. Amin’s life and his right to physical integrity, and it included also a threat to the researcher “Hammad Wadi Sannd”, who works at the Center and who have the Sudanese nationality.

Further more, the threatening e-mail claimed Mr. Amin to stop playing his role - and the Center’s role - towards Darfur crisis in addition to the role of the International Criminal Court on this crisis.

The Center fears that the Sudanese government might have a prior knowledge of these threats and their content, or at least that these threats didn’t have any reluctance from the Sudanese officials in security organs.

The Center sees that the motive behind this threat is to obstruct the role of the Center that supports the International Criminal Court on strengthening international criminal justice and the role of the court toward Darfur crisis.

 
While the Center Expresses its resentment and condemnation of such threats, it calls upon the Egyptian government to guarantee Mr. Nasser Amin’s right to life and physical integrity. The Center also puts the full responsibility on the Sudanese government and the Sudanese embassy in Cairo for any actions that might caused by Sudanese resident in Cairo.

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