Sudan: Five More Newspapers Gagged

21 December 2016

Khartoum — Five newspapers have been gagged in the 24 hours following the civil disobedience action in Sudan on 19 December. On Tuesday, the print run of El Jareeda was confiscated by security agents for the ninth time since November.

All copies of El Ayam, El Tayyar, Asoiga, and El Ahram el Yoom newspapers were seized from the presses by agents of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) this morning.

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