Khartoum / Omdurman — Eight journalists, including correspondents of Reuters and AFP, are held in detention by the Sudanese security service. The print-runs of two newspapers were seized yesterday in Sudan's crackdown on media coverage of the ongoing price hike protests.
Sudan's security apparatus, the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), confiscated the entire print-runs of El Jareeda and El Midan newspapers from the printing presses, for the second time this week. The reason for the confiscation of Thursday's issues is the articles they contained about the sharp rise of prices and arrests of demonstrators in Omdurman and Khartoum.
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