On June 17, 2017, Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Services summoned Akhir Lahza's editor-in-chief Saleh Abdelazim to its offices in Khartoum and told him that copies of the daily Arabic-language newspaper would be confiscated indefinitely, according to the newspaper's managing editor Luay Abdelrahman and news reports.
The security agents said editions of the paper were confiscated because it "cross[ed] red lines," Abdelrahman told CPJ. The managing editor said he thinks the agents were referring to an opinion article published that day. The article, by columnist Abdullah al-Sheikh, criticized a speech that Bakri Saleh, Sudan's Vice-President and Prime Minister, gave at a dinner organized by the National Press Union, according to Abdelrahman and news reports.
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