Sudan signed the Convention against Torture on 4 June 1986 and acceded to it thirty-five years later, on 10 August 2021. It submitted an initial report in September 2022. The Committee against Torture has never examined it, and there are no concluding observations on Sudan to cite.
Sudan is not South Sudan. They are different states with different treaty histories. South Sudan is covered separately, as a receiving state, on the South Sudan page.
Why this page exists
Sudan is one of the countries people in the register hold protection against. A United States immigration judge granted withholding of removal to Sudan on 25 August 2025.
What Sudan has accepted
The depositary record shows signature on 4 June 1986 and accession on 10 August 2021. The obligation is recent. Any account of Sudan on this site should say so rather than implying a long-standing commitment.
Sudan has made one declaration, and it concerns article 30. It states that Sudan “in accordance with article (30) paragraph (2) doesn’t consider itself bound by the provisions of the article (30) paragraph (1) of this Convention.” That paragraph governs the settlement of disputes between states, by arbitration and then the International Court of Justice. It has nothing to do with individual complaints.
Sudan has made no declaration under article 22. An individual cannot complain about Sudan to the Committee against Torture.
Why there is nothing from the Committee
Sudan submitted an initial report on 9 September 2022. It has not been considered. Searches of the United Nations document system for CAT/C/SDN/CO/1 and its variants, and of the Committee’s session lists from 2024 to the session scheduled for November and December 2026, return nothing. The Committee’s annual reports mention Sudan once, to record the ratification.
What the register records
Alhassan v. Perez, Southern District of Texas, 12 June 2026. The petitioner was granted withholding of removal to Sudan on 25 August 2025, and her removal order became final on 24 September 2025. The government then proposed to remove her to Cameroon.
The court held that the jurisdiction-stripping provisions do not bar habeas, because challenging the designation of a third country never named in the removal order is not a challenge to the execution of that order, and that she was substantially likely to succeed on her claim that generalised diplomatic assurances from Cameroon cannot substitute for individualised notice and an evidentiary hearing. The entry is in the register of court decisions.
Sources
Treaty status and the text of the article 30 declaration: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary record for the Convention against Torture, chapter IV-9, read 14 September 2026.
Reporting status: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, treaty body reporting record for Sudan, read 14 September 2026.