Nabil Adib
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Nabil Adib | |
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| Head of Khartoum Massacre Investigation Commission[1] | |
| Assumed office 20 October 2019[1] | |
| Prime Minister | Abdalla Hamdok |
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| Occupation | lawyer[1] |
| Known for | legal defence against human rights violations during al-Bashir era[2][3] |
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Nabil Adib Abdalla[4] (usually: Nabil Adib[2][5][1]) 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.[1]
Adib provided legal defence to many people tortured and imprisoned during the 30 years of the Omar al-Bashir presidency of Sudan.[3][2]
As of May 2016[update], Adib headed a human rights group called Sudan Human Rights Monitor.[2]
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.[2]