Sudan: News Photographers Detained in Sudan

13 January 2022

Omdurman — The Sudanese Journalists Network has condemned the arrest of Mohamed Khidir and Majdi Abdallah, photographers who cooperate with the Chinese news agency Xinhua, by the military authorities in Sudan, who continue to clamp-down on journalists, placing the country's hard-won post-revolution press freedoms under stress.

The network says in a statement that the military authorities forcibly took the two photographers to the military district of Omdurman, handcuffed them in an isolated place, and subjected them to interrogation that lasted for hours, after they confiscated their mobile phones to restrict them and prevent contact with them.

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