Sudan

(IPI/IFEX) – The following is an IPI letter to President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: His Excellency Lieutenant General Omar Hassan al-Bashir President of the Republic of Sudan President’s Palace PO Box 281 Khartoum Sudan Fax: + 24911 783 223 Vienna, 9 October 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Over a three day period, the issues of three Sudanese newspapers were seized and a journalist arrested after they criticised the government’s recent withdrawal from peace talks in Nairobi with the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). “We protest these decisions and are concerned about the repeated attacks on the press in recent […]

(CPJ/IFEX) – In a 4 September 2002 letter to President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, CPJ protested the detention of Sudanese journalist Osman Merghani, a columnist for the Khartoum-based daily “Al-Rai Al-Aam” newspaper. According to sources in Sudan, Merghani was contacted by authorities on 3 September, and told to report to the general security offices that evening. […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 16 July 2002, RSF denounced the censoring of the 13 July issue of the independent Arabic-language daily “Al-Horreya” (“Freedom”) and called on the Sudanese government to cease such “arbitrary persecution” of the country’s independent newspapers. “This measure demonstrates that despite the president’s ending of prior censorship last December, official pressure on the […]

(CJFE/IFEX) – On 16 January 2002, a Sudanese court ordered the editor of the English-language newspaper “Khartoum Monitor” to pay a five million Sudanese pound (approx. U$1,950) fine over an article published in the paper that accused the government of facilitating slavery. The newspaper itself was also fined 15 million Sudanese pounds (approx. US$5,800). In […]

(NDIMA/IFEX) – On 22 November 2001, Sudanese authorities were reported to have detained thirty journalists and other employees of an independent daily after the individuals marched to the Information Ministry to protest a decision by censors to ban the publication of a story on corruption. The thirty journalists from the daily “Al-Watan” were arrested and […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, RSF protested the arrest of BBC and Reuters correspondent Alfred Taban and Niel Paul, general manager of the independent daily “The Khartoum Monitor”. “This is the third time since the beginning of the year that Alfred Taban has been arrested for […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdul-Rahim Mohammed Hussein, RSF protested the two-day suspension imposed on the English-language daily “Khartoum Monitor”. “It is the second time in less than one month that the Sudanese authorities have banned ‘Khartoum Monitor’ when it writes about the conflict between the country’s north and south,” […]

(RSF/IFEX) – On 2 October 2001, the National Press and Publications Council ordered a twenty-four hour ban on the two dailies “Alwan” and “Al Ousboue”. The decision was implemented on 3 October. In a letter to Minister of Justice Ali M Osman Yasin, RSF protested the ban. “Censorship has been intensifying in the past few […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of Justice Ali Yassin, RSF protested the three-day suspension of the daily “Khartoum Monitor”. “Once again, the Sudanese authorities do not tolerate criticism, especially when it concerns their management of the conflict with the south of the country,” said Robert Ménard, the organisation’s secretary-general. RSF noted that since […]

(NDIMA/IFEX) – On 17 August 2001, a Sudanese professor filed a court action in Nairobi, the country’s capital, against the leader of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA), Colonel John Garang. The professor is seeking damages for defamation. Professor Bona Malwal, a senior research fellow at Oxford University in Britain, also sought an injunction to […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, RSF protested the arrest of Fayçal al-Baqer, a contributor to several Sudanese newspapers. “Since the beginning of the year, this is the sixth journalist who has been arrested,” RSF Secretary General Robert Ménard stated. He also asked the minister to refer […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of the Interior Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein, RSF protested the arrest of Alfred Taban, director of the independent daily “The Khartoum Monitor”. “This is the fifth time that a journalist has been arrested since the beginning of the year,” recalled RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard. He called for the […]

(NDIMA/IFEX) – A correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Alfrad Taban was arrested on 11 April 2001 and detained by Sudanese authorities. Taban was arrested as he went to cover an Easter function at the invitation of a local church group. He is being held in a military camp under Sudanese emergency laws. For […]

(WiPC/IFEX) – Amal Abbas and Hassan Ibrahim, who were given three-month sentences on 4 February 2001, are reported to have been released on bail on 19 February pending appeal. The two staff from the independent daily newspaper “Al Raï el Akhar” had been fined 15 million Sudanese pounds (approx. US$5,800) each in connection with an […]

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter sent to the general secretary of the National Press Council, Al Obaid Ahmed Mourawah, RSF protested the council’s decision to prohibit the media from covering an assault on journalist Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed. The organisation called on the general secretary to use his influence “to see to it that the […]