Press Release

June 25, 2003

The Sudan Human Rights Organization Cairo Office and the SHRO-Cairo groups in Sudan are deeply saddened with the sudden departure of Mahgoub Sid Ahmed, a founding member of the Organization (in exile), a prominent trade unionist, and a renowned human rights educator and activist who dedicated his whole life for the workaday struggle to insure the full enjoyment of human rights and freedoms for the People of Sudan.

The SHRO-Cairo activists have closely known Mahgoub Sid Ahmed since the early days of inaugurating the Organization’s activities in exile. We have always admired him as a devout activist for the enforcement of labor rights in the country, as well as a conscientious educator of the national and international labor legislation and activities at home or abroad.

The Organization has deeply maintained the highest level of respect and admiration to Sid Ahmed as a role model who exemplified the competency of leadership in the struggle to insure full labor rights to the working people of Sudan. The bravery and the sacrifice that Sid Ahmed consistently offered for the cause of freedoms and human rights in the Sudan will always strengthen the struggle for human rights and labor freedoms.

The Organization joins with determination the masses of the Sudan’s workers and intellectuals who have strongly pledged to continue the struggle that Sid Ahmed sincerely led all his life, educating new generations, challenging and defeating tyrannous regimes, and raising the banner of the Sudanese labor unions in the regional and international arenas.

Our educational programs and our training workshops will miss you, Sid Ahmed…

We express our deep condolences to Mahgoub’s family, the Sudanese labor movement, and the Sudan’s Civil Society…

We pray: may the Almighty Lord rest your soul in peace, Sid Ahmed.

Amen.