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For Mudawi - A Poem

For Mudawi - On 22 December Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam was summoned to the court in Khartoum and sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of £3000.

Dr Mudawi is Director of SUDO (the Sudan Social Development Organisation) and had been previously charged with financial mismanagement. Even though the court had dismissed the charges against him due to lack of evidence the Government intervened and insisted on the imposition of a prison term and fine.

This poem was written by Andrew Anderson, Deputy Director of Front Line who has worked closely with Dr Mudawi

The prison walls throw

in stark relief

the fragility of a good man

against the system

The power of quiet integrity

shining out brighter

uncaged by the banal brutality

of incarceration

The weak seek to repress

in fear of the truth

clinging vainly to the corrupt

trappings of office

And the whisper of justice breathes

over Khartoum

it's promise entwined in the lament

of days lost, but a future gained

Set free my friend Mudawi

and hope for Sudan

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For Mudawi - A Poem

For Mudawi - On 22 December Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam was summoned to the court in Khartoum and sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of £3000.

Dr Mudawi is Director of SUDO (the Sudan Social Development Organisation) and had been previously charged with financial mismanagement. Even though the court had dismissed the charges against him due to lack of evidence the Government intervened and insisted on the imposition of a prison term and fine.

This poem was written by Andrew Anderson, Deputy Director of Front Line who has worked closely with Dr Mudawi

The prison walls throw

in stark relief

the fragility of a good man

against the system

The power of quiet integrity

shining out brighter

uncaged by the banal brutality

of incarceration

The weak seek to repress

in fear of the truth

clinging vainly to the corrupt

trappings of office

And the whisper of justice breathes

over Khartoum

it's promise entwined in the lament

of days lost, but a future gained

Set free my friend Mudawi

and hope for Sudan

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Russian Federation - Human rights defender Mr Oleg Orlov fined following defamation suitposted on: 2009/10/13

On 6 October 2009, human rights defender Mr Oleg Orlov, chairman of Human Rights Center Memorial, was fined and ordered to retract public statements following a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the President of the Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. Human Rights Centre Memorial concentrates its activities on human rights violations in zones of armed conflicts in the Russian Federation, and on the protection of refugees and victims of discrimination and political persecution.

Cameroon:Sentencing of journalist, Mr Lewis Medjoposted on: 2009/01/27

Front Line is concerned following the sentencing to a prison term and fine, of human rights defender and journalist, Mr Lewis Medjo, on 7 January 2009. Lewis Medjo is Publications Director for the weekly newspaper La Détente Libre. Lewis Medjio and La Détente Libre regularly report on the human rights situation and good governance in Cameroon.