Sudan Security Forces Editor-in-Chief of a Newspaper to Resign, Detains Al-Jazeera Bureau Chief

3 April 2013

Khartoum — Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) today notified the Editor-in-chief of Al-Sahafa daily newspaper, Al-Nur Ahmed Al-Nur that he must resign his post and see that his name is removed from the paper's letterhead.

The paper which has been established in 1961, received a warning from the authorities that if Al-Nur continues his work as Editor-in-chief in defiance of this directive, the paper will be confiscated.

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