{{Short description|Sudanese human rights lawyer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Nabil Adib<!-- use common name/article title --> | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = ar | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = lawyer<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" /> | title = <!-- Formal/awarded/job title. The parameter |office=may be used as an alternative when the label is better rendered as "Office" (e.g. public office or appointments) --> | years_active = | known_for = legal defence against human rights violations during al-Bashir era<ref name="HRDefenders_May2016" /><ref name="FT_Adib_quote" /> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | module = | office1 = Head of Khartoum Massacre Investigation Commission<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" /><!-- formal English name of commission not yet known; use descriptive name while waiting --> | term_start1 = 20 October 2019<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" /> | term_end1 = | prime_minister1 = Abdalla Hamdok | predecessor1 = | successor1 = }} {{Politics of Sudan}} '''Nabil Adib Abdalla'''<ref name="CSI_Adib_minorities" /> (usually: ''Nabil Adib''<ref name="HRDefenders_May2016" /><ref name="Dabanga_constitutional_declaration" /><ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" />) is a Sudanese human rights lawyer who was nominated on 20 October 2019 as head of the investigation commission of the 3 June Khartoum massacre that took place during the Sudanese Revolution.<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" />
==Omar al-Bashir era== Adib provided legal defence to many people tortured and imprisoned during the 30 years of the Omar al-Bashir presidency of Sudan.<ref name="FT_Adib_quote" /><ref name="HRDefenders_May2016" />
{{As of|2016|05}}, Adib headed a human rights group called Sudan Human Rights Monitor.<ref name="HRDefenders_May2016" />
On 5 May 2016, several weeks after students had held protests on the campus of the University of Khartoum to defend their right to create a students' union, National Intelligence and Security Service officers raided Adib's office without an arrest warrant. They assaulted two staff members, confiscated legal files and Adib's laptop, and arrested ten students, two lawyers, and two staff members.<ref name="HRDefenders_May2016" />
==Sudanese Revolution== Around May 2019, Adib described the first four months of the Sudanese Revolution as "really amazing". He stated, "It took four months and, even though the regime confronted it with violence, the young people remained adamant to bring it down".<ref name="FT_Adib_quote" />
Adib expressed his confidence that the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration was appropriate for the practical purposes of the planned 39-month transition period to democracy. He insisted that the document does not hold the status of a definitive constitution. He referred to constitutional changes that had been implemented in the October 1964 Revolution and the 1985 Sudanese Revolution.<ref name="Dabanga_constitutional_declaration" />
===Head of Khartoum investigation=== On 20 October 2019, Adib was nominated as head of the investigation commission of the 3 June Khartoum massacre that took place during the Sudanese Revolution.<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP" /> The creation of the commission was mandated under Article 7.(16) of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration, to cover "violations committed on 3 June 2019, and events and incidents where violations of the rights and dignity of civilian and military citizens were committed."<ref name="Const_Dec_En_unofficial" /><ref name="raisethevoices_4Aug2019_const_dec" />
==Points of view== Adib attributed discrimination against Christians in Sudan to the political belief, influenced by Arab nationalism, that a nation should have a single identity. He argued that legal discrimination in favour of Islam strengthened successively since the 1950s in Sudan, leading to the 2011 secession of South Sudan. Adib argued that Sudan has a high level of religious diversity and that "there is no other people more tolerant than Sudanese Muslims".<ref name="CSI_Adib_minorities" /> ==References== <references>
<ref name="ThomReut_anti_NCP">{{cite news | last1= Abdelaziz | first1=Khalid | title= Tens of thousands rally against former ruling party in Sudan | date= 21 October 2019 | agency= Thomson Reuters | url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-politics/tens-of-thousands-rally-against-former-ruling-party-in-sudan-idUSKBN1X01Y2?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191021200715/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-politics/tens-of-thousands-rally-against-former-ruling-party-in-sudan-idUSKBN1X01Y2?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews |archive-date= 21 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="HRDefenders_May2016">{{cite web | title =Student rights defenders detained incommunicado following peaceful protests | website= Human Rights Defenders |date = 19 May 2016 | url = https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-nabil-adib | access-date = 21 October 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191021212741/https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-nabil-adib |archive-date= 21 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="FT_Adib_quote">{{cite web | last1 =Pilling | first1 =David | title =They've removed Sudan's dictator. Now, they're fighting to protect the uprising. | website= Ozy/The Financial Times |date =7 May 2019 | url =https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/sudans-protesters-plot-next-stage-of-the-revolution/94193/ | access-date = 21 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021213147/https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/sudans-protesters-plot-next-stage-of-the-revolution/94193/ |archive-date= 21 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="CSI_Adib_minorities">{{cite web | last1 =Adib | first1 =Nabil | author-link =Nabil Adib | title =Discrimination against Christians: Perpetrated or Condoned by the State of Sudan | website= Christian Solidarity International |date =21 October 2019 | url = https://middle-east-minorities.com/events/discrimination-against-christians-perpetrated-or-condoned-by-the-state-of-sudan/ | access-date = 21 October 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191021212905/https://middle-east-minorities.com/events/discrimination-against-christians-perpetrated-or-condoned-by-the-state-of-sudan/ |archive-date= 21 October 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Dabanga_constitutional_declaration">{{cite news | title=Jurist: 'Sharia aspects of Sudan's Constitutional Declaration no cause for alarm' | date=8 August 2019 | newspaper=Radio Dabanga | url=https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/jurist-sharia-aspects-of-sudan-s-constitutional-declaration-no-cause-for-alarm |access-date=21 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190810131306/https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/jurist-sharia-aspects-of-sudan-s-constitutional-declaration-no-cause-for-alarm |archive-date= 10 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Const_Dec_En_unofficial">{{cite web | last1 = FFC | last2 = TMC | last3 = IDEA | last4 = Reeves | first4 = Eric | author1-link = Forces of Freedom and Change | author2-link = Transitional Military Council (2019) | author3-link = International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance | author4-link = Eric Reeves | title = Sudan: Draft Constitutional Charter for the 2019 Transitional Period | website = sudanreeves.org | date = 10 August 2019 | url = https://sudanreeves.org/2019/08/06/sudan-draft-constitutional-charter-for-the-2019-transitional-period/ | access-date = 10 August 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190810213233/https://sudanreeves.org/2019/08/06/sudan-draft-constitutional-charter-for-the-2019-transitional-period/ | archive-date = 10 August 2019 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
<ref name="raisethevoices_4Aug2019_const_dec">{{cite web |last1 = FFC|last2 = TMC |author1-link = Forces of Freedom and Change |author2-link = Transitional Military Council (2019) | title = (الدستوري Declaration (العربية)) | trans-title = (Constitutional Declaration) |language = ar | website= raisethevoices.org |date =4 August 2019 | url = http://raisethevoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sudan-amendment.pdf | access-date = 5 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805170905/http://raisethevoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/sudan-amendment.pdf |archive-date= 5 August 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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