Sudan - Call for an end to harassment of detained journalist Faisal Mohamed Salih

Reporters without borders

The freelance journalist and human rights activist Faisal Mohamed Salih was arrested arbitrarily today in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The day before, he was held for eight hours at the office of the security forces where he was given nothing to eat or drink. Reporters Without Borders is outraged at the violence and pressure to which the journalist, a former editor of the newspaper Al-Adwa, has been subjected for almost two weeks. “We ask the Sudanese authorities to call a halt to such (...)

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