April 3, 2019
On October 23, 2018 exiled Sudanese rights lawyer Abdelrhman Mohammed Al Gasim received the following message by Twitter:
He reported this incident to many friends and human rights organizations such as Human Rigths Watch, Amnesty International and Defend Defenders. The Defend Defenders IT officer informed him that the account user’s profile was based in the UK, and he has more than 6,000 followers. Al Gasim did not take any action with respect to Twitter managers so the originator of the threat could still be traced, because if he did they were going to block him and he wanted to track him until he could be arrested. He felt seriously threatened and unsafe because they know his location. He received many calls via WhatsApp after this message but he did not respond to them and sought the assistance of the American Bar Association.
Al Gasim is the 2018 American Bar Association (ABA) Human Rights Award recipient and an Honorary Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He escaped from Sudan in March 2012 after being detained for 13 months at the NISS detention centre, and was facing more than 13 crimes against the state charges for his human rights activities, most of them punishable by death. The IBAHRI issued the following statement about his case on November 3, 2010: https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=a5c657cf-759a-4412-8bd5-95fe714be29f. He is the Protection and External Relations Secretary of the Darfur Bar Association. A friend of his in the UK was requested to make a formal complaint to the Metropolitan Police.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201807020237.html
https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2018/06/sudanese_lawyer_abde/
http://legalnews.com/detroit/1461020
https://lawyersforlawyers.org/en/lawyers/abdelrahman-gasim/
https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/laywer-abdulrahman-gasim-released
http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/index.html
https://www.trouw.nl/democratie/het-verzet-in-soedan-verloopt-via-whatsapp~ad47945e/ (NEDERLANDS)