Sudan: Two journalists get a month in prison for “defamation”

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Ashraf Abdelaziz, the editor of the independent daily Al-Jareeda, and Hassan Warag, one of his reporters, who were jailed by the Khartoum Press and Publications Court last week after being convicted of defaming a local government official.Sentenced on 15 March to a fine of 935 US dollars each or to a month in prison, the two journalists were taken to Omdurman prison to begin serving the jail sentence aft

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