Last July the Sudanese National Assembly passed amendments to the
Armed Forces Act 2007 that would subject civilians to military trial for numerous vaguely-worded offenses. Human rights groups such as
Redress,
Human Rights Watch and the
African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies criticized the legislation and had encouraged the president of Sudan
not to approve it.
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