اليكس دي ووال يرثي عبدالسلام حسنMaking Sense of Sudan:In Memoriam: Abdel Salam Hassan

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اليكس دي ووال يرثي عبدالسلام حسنMaking Sense of Sudan:In Memoriam: Abdel Salam Hassan

    Quote: Making Sense of Sudan

    http://blogs.ssrc.org/sudan/2010/03/14/in-memoriam-abdel-salam-hassan/

    In Memoriam: Abdel Salam Hassan
    posted by Alex de Waal
    Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam, who died in London this weekend, was a guiding light of Sudan’s human rights movement. He was one of a remarkable generation of Sudanese intellectuals, who grew up and gained a first-rate education in provincial towns (in his case, Wadi Halfa in Sudan’s far north), and who possessed a vivid curiosity about the complexities and paradoxes of their country. His first job was in the customs office, and one of the many oddities of Sudanese life which he explained was the convergence between poetry and customs officials – both vocations drew disproportionately from the Halfawiin. Abdel Salam remained a poet, but studied law.

    Abdel Salam was a devout secularist. Among his role models was Farag Foda, and Abdel Salam brought the same quality of straight-thinking intellectual courage to his life and work. HHe was an unflinching advocate for human rights with a keen sense of the social and political context for making those rights real. He studied Islam deeply and mocked both the excesses of Islamist zealots, and those who were intimidated by them. Analyzing Sudanese jihadism for a chapter we co-wrote on the topic, he turned to the infamous el Obeid fatwa of 1992 and immediately saw that it was, as he said “the rantings of some second-rate provincial ulema.”

    I first met Abdel Salam in London in 1990, when he was Chairman of the Sudan Human Rights Organization, re-founded in exile, which was briefly hosted at Africa Watch. He was a formidable intellectual presence. He had the ability to pick out a neglected human rights issue – for example he was keenly attentive to the plight of the Sudanese Copts. We worked closely together for the following fourteen years, notably on the project “human rights in the transition in Sudan.” As early as 1997, Abdel Salam recognized that the Sudanese civil war would surely come to an end, and the human rights community would then face the challenge of ensuring that the promise of the transitional period – peace, democracy and human rights – was not missed. He chaired the committee that organized the first 1999 Kampala conference. Characteristically, he chose to present a paper in that conference on race relations. Many of the southerners present, who did not know Abdel Salam personally, were puzzled, to say the least, when a conspicuously pale-skinned northerner took the podium to speak on this issue, but were won over by his frankness and acuity. He and I co-edited the volume of papers from the conference. For much of the process I served as his ghost writer, intellectually in his debt, and wishing only that he were better able to translate his analyses into the written word.

    Abdel Salam coined the term al mashru’ al medani – “the civil project” – as a riposte to the Islamists’ al mashru’ al hadhari or “civilization project.” Following on from the two Kampala conferences (1999 and 2001), this remains the vision for the civil society coalition that Justice Africa pulled together.

    Abdel Salam was unfailingly disorganized, but utterly without pretension or ego, and always witty. Once, turning up three hours late for an appointment, the frustrated administrator at African Rights scolded him, ‘do you call this 12 o’clock?’ With a self-deprecating smile Abdel Salam responded, ‘somewhere in the world it is 12 o’clock…’ He longed to return to Sudan, and his work with the Redress Trust from 2007 onwards allowed him to visit Khartoum again, and plan for resuming his vocation at home.

    Tragically and shockingly, Abdel Salam was murdered at his small flat in Lewisham, south London, on Saturday. The circumstances of his untimely death are not clear. He was divorced and leaves an adult daughter.
                  

03-15-2010, 02:49 PM

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Re: اليكس دي ووال يرثي عبدالسلام حسنMaking Sense of Sudan:In Memoriam: Abdel Salam Hassan (Re: abubakr)

    the police report on the murder of the late Abdel salam Hassan Abdelsalam

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    Police have launched a murder investigation following the death of a man at an address in Lewisham.

    Officers were called at approximately 07:10hrs on Saturday, 13 March to reports of a body found at an address in Boone Street, SE13.

    London Ambualnce Service attended and the man - aged 56 - was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been stabbed.

    A post mortem took place yesterday, 14 March at Greenwich Mortuary and gave cause of death as blood loss from the femoral artery in the leg.

    Next-of-kin have been informed and formal identification has taken place. The deceased is Abdel-Salam Hussain Abdel-Salam, 56 of Boone Street, SE13.

    Officers from the Homicide and Serious Crime Command investigate and retain an open mind as to the motive for this incident.

    No arrests and enquiries continue.

                  

03-16-2010, 03:50 AM

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    Police investigate Sudan links in rights lawyer's killing

    Sandra Laville, crime correspondent

    guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 March 2010 18.56 GMT

    Detectives investigating the murder of a respected human rights lawyer are looking into whether there are links between his work helping torture victims in Sudan and his killing.

    Abdelsalam Hassan Abdelsalam, a lawyer and intellectual who had promoted human rights in Sudan for 30 years, was found stabbed to death in his south London flat early on Saturday morning.

    Police sources said they are probing any connections between his death and his work promoting human rights in Sudan and helping torture victims seek redress.

    Abdelsalam had been the victim of repeated criminal incidents in the months before his death, including burglaries, antisocial behaviour and harassment. This apparent targeting of the lawyer, who weighed 22 stone and walked with two sticks, is also being investigated.

    "We are looking at every aspect of his life, including his work as a human rights lawyer," said one police source. "He was quite a vulnerable individual as he walked with two sticks and weighed 22 stone and there were issues with where he lived."

    Detective Chief Inspector Damian Allain from the homicide and serious crime command at Scotland Yard said: "This was a brutal attack on a defenceless man, made more tragic as Abdel had devoted much of his life to combating abuse of human rights upon others."

    At least one address in the block of flats where he lived was known to police for its links to drugs and antisocial behaviour.

    Abdelsalam, 56, a divorced father of one, was found by a neighbour on Saturday in the hallway of his flat in Boone Street, Lewisham. The neighbour saw the door of his flat open at around 7am, and he was lying in the hallway, a source said.

    Abdelsalam had been repeatedly stabbed, police said. There were wounds to his stomach and torso, and defence wounds to his arms suggesting he put up a fierce struggle with his killer or killers.

    His death was caused by a stab wound to his leg which severed his femoral artery.

    For the last three years Abdelsalam had worked as Sudan expert for Redress, a south London rights organisation which helps torture victims around the world. He had fought for human rights in his country for more than 30 years.

    Colleagues at Redress said they had been concerned about his personal safety after he told them of the many criminal incidents he had suffered.

    Carla Ferstman, director of Redress, said: "There was a lot of concern here about his personal safety. He talked to us about what had been going on a great deal. He had been burgled and broken into several times. He talked to his colleagues about it a lot, he was not happy where he was living and his colleagues were concerned for him.

    "The work he did for us involved him working with civil society and the government in Sudan to promote law reform. But he was involved in the much more sensitive work of helping individual victims of torture to seek redress."

    His friends at work last saw Abdelsalam on Thursday. They were told of his death on Saturday afternoon.

    "We are like a family here. Everyone is shocked and devastated. We have known him for 10 years, and he is incredibly well respected in Sudan for his work.

    "He has helped many people through his work with torture victims."

    The lawyer was last seen on Friday afternoon and telephone records show he spoke to someone from his flat at 9pm on Friday night.

    It is understood Abdelsalam was known to social services in Lewisham and home help visited him once a week because of a leg injury he had suffered.

    Alex de Waal, an Africa expert at the Social Science Research Council in New York, who knew Abdelsalam well, said: "He was one of a remarkable generation of Sudanese intellectuals, who grew up and gained a first-rate education in provincial towns and who possessed a vivid curiosity about the complexities and paradoxes of their country. He was an unflinching advocate for human rights with a keen sense of the social and political context for making those rights real. He studied Islam deeply and mocked both the excesses of Islamist zealots, and those intimidated by them."
                  

03-16-2010, 06:02 PM

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    Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam was a leading human rights campaigner

    Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam found dead in his Boone Street home
    7:45am Tuesday 16th March 2010

    By Scott Mullins

    MORE details have emerged today (March 16) about the murder of leading human rights campaigner Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam.

    Police say they were called to Mr Abdel Salam’s small bottom-floor flat in Boone Street, Lee, at around 7.10am on Saturday (March 13) after a neighbour noticed his door was ajar.

    Just inside the front door lay the body of the 56-year-old.

    Paramedics pronounced the Sudanese human rights lawyer dead at the scene. He died from huge blood loss from a stab wound in his leg.

    Met officers from the homicide and serious crime command are investigating and say they are retaining an “open mind” as to the motive for the stabbing.

    Detective Chief Inspector Damian Allain said: “This was a brutal attack on a defenceless man, made more tragic as Abdel had devoted much of his life combating abuse of human rights upon others.

    "I am keen to trace Abdel's movements and appeal for anyone with information to come forward to assist my team with this investigation.

    “Abdel was last seen alive at home on the afternoon of Friday, March 12, and we are trying to establish his movements between this time and the following morning when his body was discovered."

    He added: "Abdel was a large man, who used two sticks to walk as he had some difficulty.

    "He would often travel by minicab or bus to take him to the charity where he volunteered in central London, and many people would have seen him on his route.”

    Lawyer and intellectual

    Mr Abdel Salam weighed 22st and was 5ft 9in tall with short afro hair.

    He volunteered at human rights organisation Redress and was a lawyer and intellectual who had promoted human rights in Sudan for 30 years.

    It is understood he also worked with Human Rights Watch, Sudan Human Rights Organisation and Justice Africa.

    A statement from Redress read: “We will greatly miss his depth of knowledge and commitment and the conviviality with which he enriched our daily lives.”

    Juliet Flint worked with Mr Abdel Salam at Justice Africa, an organisation which campaigns for human rights and social justice across Africa.

    She said: “He was a friend, a very warm, very witty man who was as generous as he was, nearly always, out-of-pocket. He was a big man in every sense of the word - physically, intellectually and morally.

    “He was a man who loved peace and loved people. It is terribly upsetting that he died so violently, and so alone.”

    No-one has been arrested in connection with the murder.

    Anyone with information should call the Met Police on 020 8721 4805 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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