SUDANESE human rights activists have briefed UN envoy Gerhart Baum on what they charged were increasing government abuses like arbitrary detention and curbs on freedom of speech. Sudanese Group for Human Rights (SGHR) chairman Ghazi Suleiman said that his group delivered many complaints. Sudan’s Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who later met with Baum, said his country “has nothing to hide. – AFP