In late April 1996, Sudanese security forces arrested four journalists with the state-owned Sudanese Television. News director Ismael Muhammad al-Hussein, news editors Hussein Saleh and Abbas Suleiman, and cameraman Osama Ghandi were arrested at the station’s offices and taken into custody. There has been no news of the journalists since their arrest, and colleagues fear […]
In late April 1996, Sudanese security forces arrested four
journalists with the state-owned Sudanese Television. News
director Ismael Muhammad al-Hussein, news editors Hussein Saleh
and Abbas Suleiman, and cameraman Osama Ghandi were arrested at
the station’s offices and taken into custody.
There has been no news of the journalists since their arrest, and
colleagues fear that they are being held in “ghost houses,”
clandestine detention centres where prisoners are routinely
tortured.
Recommended Action
Send appeals to authorities:
al-Hussein, Hussein Saleh, Abbas Suleiman and Osama Ghandi
were arrested solely for exercising their right to free
expression, which is guaranteed by Article 19 of the United
Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
principles of the Declaration of Sana’a on Promoting Independent
and Pluralistic Arab Media, which were agreed upon by journalists
from the entire Arab world, and endorsed by the United Nations
and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation
Appeals To
His Excellency Omar Hassan al-Bashir
President of the Republic of Sudan
Palace of the People
Khartoum
c/o the Sudanese embassy in France
Fax: +011 331 4563 6673
The Sudanese diplomatic representative in your country
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