Sudan's Press Claims Crackdown

Publisher:
AlJazeera English
Publication Date:
26 September 2012
Tags:
Sudan, Press and Media, Human Rights, Legal and Judicial Affairs

At one newspaper in Khartoum, journalists said they lost their jobs when their boss got a sudden call from Sudanese intelligence telling him to close down the newspaper. Two papers have been closed in as many months, and others - even those not aligned with the opposition - are claiming harassment. Others who have been shut down in the past are comfortably sure it will happen again. Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros reports.

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