SUDAN POLITICAL ALERT: US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel Calls for Sanctions on Sudanese Security Forces
Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, called on the Trump administration to sanction the Rapid Support Forces under the Global Magnitsky Act, singling out Himedti for his responsibility in ordering “gross human rights abuses…against unarmed civilians.”
As well as expressing concern that another violent crackdown is imminent during the planned June 30 protests, Engel wrote that such sanctions with “reaffirm [US’] unwavering support for democratic principles in Sudan,” and sends a “powerful” message to Sudanese people that the US “stands in solidarity with them in their fight to end the human rights abuses.”