CAIRO: Darfur rights defender Moneim Soliman, who had been imprisoned by Egypt security officials and labeled an enemy of the state has been resettled to Norway with his wife, an Amnesty International employee told Bikyamasr.com in an email. “His wife and he were successfully resettled to Norway yesterday morning,” the email on Thursday evening said. “The other members of the Sudan Center for Contemporary Studies and Development remain on a listed of refugees wanted by the Sudanese Embassy in Egypt, who has requested their deportation to Sudan as enemies of the state,” it added, giving concern over the other Sudanese nationals who remain under threat in Egypt. On May 6, security forces arrested refugee rights defender Abdel Moneim Adam Suleiman, 36, in the Mogamma administrative complex, in central Cairo's Tahrir Square. Ministry of interior officials had asked him to go there to retrieve his passport after they had taken it from him during a previous arrest in February. Soliman had been being held in al-Qanater Prison, north of Cairo. His lawyer has said his client had not been charged, but that he was being held because he considered a threat to “national security." His lawyer had lodged an appeal against the ministry of interior's decision to deport him, before an administrative court, which apparently gave the okay for his departure from Egypt. “Amnesty International fears Abdel Moneim Adam Suleiman could be forcibly returned to Sudan at any time. Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants from Sub-Saharan countries, such as Sudan and Eritrea, have previously been deported back to their counties without due process and despite ongoing legal challenges to their deportation," the statement read before his release on Wednesday. “Abdel Moneim Adam Suleiman has reportedly been granted refugee status by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR." He is also the director of the Sudan Center for Contemporary Studies and Development, which documents abuses against refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Egypt. He was detained briefly by the security forces in January and February 2012. On both occasions security forces questioned him about his activities in Egypt. Following his arrest in February he was reportedly told that he was no longer welcome in the country.
