Top UN envoy in Sudan Jan Pronk denounced Tuesday that the arrest of an aid worker of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is a very sorrowful issue.

Vincent Hoedt, MSF regional coordinator in Darfur, was arrested early Tuesday by the Sudanese authorities for publishing a report based on medical evidence in the agency's hospitals in Darfur documenting about 500 rape cases over four and a half months in Darfur.

Pronk told a press conference that he is sure the claims of cases of rape contained in the report, which was described by the Sudanese Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs as falsified, are true.

The medical aid group's report on rape cases in Darfur does not contain any falsity and it was based on true information and medical documents, he stressed.

The UN envoy urged local media to believe "citations of the Darfur women" who are the victims of sexual violence, adding that those women do not fabricate such stories "from their own imagination."

The UN official denounced "the dishonest campaign" that the Sudanese local media launched against the humanitarian organizations.

He stressed the right of the judiciary organs to carry out their duty against whoever violates the law, saying "I do not think that the humanitarian workers do any thing against the law."

Pronk said MSF carry out an important and sensitive mission targeting to save human victims and the UN lends full support to the charity.

He pointed out that he informed the Sudanese Foreign Ministry of his full support to the content of the MSF report, denying any planned policies adopted by the Sudanese government to intimidate the humanitarian organizations working in Sudan.

Sudan's arid and impoverished western region of Darfur has been in the grip of civil war for more than two years. Many people have been killed or driven from their homes.

The African Union has brokered a shaky ceasefire and sent a small force of military observers, but it has struggled to find a political solution and three previous rounds of talks in the Nigerian capital of Abuja made little progress.

Source: Xinhua