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 country people were sent to, 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.
Sudan is also listed in the Third-Country Removals project, on The Countries page, flagged as a destination country where torture is documented.
Since 27 October 2026 Third Country Deportation Watch has stated that “Some countries, such as Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Zimbabwe, have declined to sign agreements with the United States”, citing reporting by the Washington Post. Source: Third Country Deportation Watch, overview, read 5 November 2026
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.
Sudanese nationals sent to third countries
Of the eight men the United States sent to South Sudan in July 2025, Human Rights Watch records “one man who had been born in Khartoum, Sudan”, and Third Country Deportation Watch that the group included people who had been ordered removed to Sudan. South Sudan’s foreign ministry told Human Rights Watch that it considered the man born in Khartoum a South Sudanese citizen and that he had been released to his family. Human Rights Watch records that none of the eight held withholding or deferral of removal. Sources: HRW, To Scare People, 8 October 2026, pp. 74 to 75 · Third Country Deportation Watch, South Sudan
Third Country Deportation Watch records nationals of Sudan among four people sent to Eswatini on 11 March 2026 and among 12 people sent to Burundi on 27 August 2026. Its Uganda page records 72 Sudanese nationals among the 2,823 asylum seekers whose cases were pretermitted between December 2025 and August 2026 for removal to Uganda. Sources: Third Country Deportation Watch, Eswatini · Third Country Deportation Watch, Burundi · Third Country Deportation Watch, Uganda
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.
On 11 August 2026, after she asked the court to decide her petition and order her release, the court ordered the government to respond by 21 August 2026, addressing “any actions taken to comply with the Court’s June 12 Order” and whether her removal “is significantly likely to occur in the reasonably foreseeable future.” Source: Alhassan v. Perez, S.D. Tex., ECF 30, 11 August 2026
The register also holds Hassan v. Blanche, District of Nevada, 24 April 2026. The petitioner was admitted to the United States in 2006 as a Sudanese refugee and ordered removed in 2021, but his removal to Sudan was deferred under the Convention against Torture. Re-detained in January 2026, he was ordered released, and the government was enjoined from removing him “to any country not listed on his removal order unless it first complies with the notice-and-hearing requirements detailed in this order.” Source: Hassan v. Blanche, D. Nev., No. 2:26-cv-00411, docket
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. Sources: UN Treaty Collection, Convention against Torture · OHCHR treaty body reporting record, Sudan
Sudanese nationals sent to third countries: Human Rights Watch, To Scare People, 8 October 2026, pages 74 to 75; Third Country Deportation Watch, South Sudan, Eswatini, Burundi, Uganda and overview, read 5 November 2026. Court records: Alhassan v. Perez, No. 5:26-cv-00461 (S.D. Tex.), ECF 30, 11 August 2026; Hassan v. Blanche, No. 2:26-cv-00411 (D. Nev.), order of 24 April 2026. Sources: HRW, To Scare People (PDF) · Third Country Deportation Watch, overview · Alhassan v. Perez, ECF 30 · Hassan v. Blanche, docket