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Sudan – Detained Eritrean journalist faces possible forced repatriation from Sudan
Reporters Without Borders expresses its profound concern after the arrest on 24 October of the Eritrean journalist Jamal Osman Hamad in Khartoum and calls on the Sudanese authorities to release him. In the light of warmer relations between the governments of Eritrea and Sudan, the press freedom organization is also concerned about the fate of Eritrean journalists and human rights campaigners who have taken refuge in Sudan. “The situation faced by Jamal Osman Hamad is extremely worrying,” (…)
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Sudan – Call for release of all imprisoned journalists in wake of president’s announcement
Reporters Without Borders welcomes President Omar Al-Bashir’s announcement during a meeting with journalists on 27 August that he intends to free all the journalists imprisoned in Sudan, but we call for this decision to be extended to all media workers and for it to be carried out without delay. The announcement was followed yesterday by the release of Gafar Alsabki Ibrahim, a journalist with the Arabic-language daily Al-Sahafa, who had been detained since 3 November 2010. But Abdelrahman (…)
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Sudan – Journalist freed on bail but daily prevented from publishing for three days and return of prior censorship mooted
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the news that Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of the now closed daily Rai Al-Shaab, was finally released on bail on 22 August, but deplores the failure to dismiss the new charges that were brought against him in June. Amin is still facing a possible death sentence on charges in connection with articles he wrote and with a security official’s claim that he was attacked by Amin at the time of his arrest in May 2010, when Amin was tortured. The news of (…)
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Sudan – Censorship, prosecutions and extended detention signal steady decline in media freedom
Reporters Without Borders condemns the steady deterioration in media freedom in Sudan where all the copies of an Arabic-language daily were seized five days ago in Khartoum, a group of journalists have been harassed for weeks because of their coverage of a serious human rights violation and others remain in detention. Already ranked last year among the world’s 10 worst countries as regards respect for journalists (172nd out of 178 countries in the Reporters Without Borders press freedom (…)
Sudan – Reporter released from prison after colleagues pay fine
Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that Al-Jarida reporter Amal Habani was released from Omdurman women’s prison yesterday after her colleagues paid the fine of 2,000 Sudanese pounds that a court imposed on her on 25 July. Habani spent two days in the prison, to which she was taken after refusing to pay the fine. 25.07.2011 Another woman journalist jailed for reporting rape allegations Amal Habani, a woman reporter for the daily Al-Jarida, was today sentenced to a fine of (…)
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Sudan – One more Al-Midan journalist freed, four still held
Another Al-Midan employee, Mohamed Rahma, was released today after 14 days in detention. Four are still being held. They are graphic designer Khalid Tawfig, trainee journalists Mohamed Aldirderi and Samir Salaheldin and correspondant Abdelazeem Albadawi. 14-02-2011- Three Al-Midan employees freed, five others still held without charge Reporters Without Borders is partially relieved that three employees of the opposition weekly Al-Midan who had been arrested on 2 February were released (…)
