Sudan - Woman journalist flees abroad after mistreatment by intelligence agency

Reporters without borders

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is deeply relieved to learn that Somaia Ibrahim Ismail, a young woman journalist and activist who was kidnapped and tortured last week by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), was able to flee the country late yesterday evening. Also known as "Hundosa," Ismail was detained and mistreated because of her opposition to President Omar al Bashir's government. Her jailers shaved her hair. She was told it was because "it looked like (...)

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