{"id":184130,"date":"2014-10-24T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-security-detains-journalist-in-khartoum\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T21:26:00","slug":"sudan-security-detains-journalist-in-khartoum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-security-detains-journalist-in-khartoum","title":{"rendered":"Sudan security detains journalist in Khartoum"},"content":{"rendered":"

A journalist working for the London-based Arabic newspaper El Hayat<\/em> in Khartoum was detained on Thursday evening, for reporting about the National Electricity Corporation (NEC). His wife has demanded his release.<\/p>\n

Journalist El Nur Ahmed El Nur, also working for the website of El Taghyeer <\/em>news, was held by security agents at 6 pm at the office of El Hayat<\/em>, in central Khartoum. He was taken to a detention centre of the security service. Later, in the middle of Thursday night, he was transferred to Kober prison in Khartoum north, his wife El Nur Abdallah told Radio Dabanga.<\/p>\n

She claimed that El Nur was arrested for writing that President Omar Al Bashir issued a decree merging the NEC with other electricity companies. \u201cThe security has prevented me from seeing him on Friday morning,\u201d Abdallah said. She called for the release, or a fair trial for her husband.<\/p>\n

In April 2013, El Nur was removed from his office by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) and forced to resign as editor-in-chief for the daily El Sahafa<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n

A union of journalists released a statement following El Nur’s arrest, stressing the deteriorating position of the press in Sudan. \u201cJournalists in Sudan face a series of restrictions, prosecutions, and other harassments by the government and the NISS. Besides, Sudan imposed a strict control on newspapers and the media, and often prevents publications. In order to prevent journalists from writing, the authorities arrest and prosecute them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sudan ranked near the bottom, at 172 out of 180, in the Reporters Without Borders 2014 World Press Freedom Index.<\/p>\n

File photo: Journalist El Nur Ahmed El Nur (Radio Dabanga archive)<\/em><\/p>\n

Related:<\/em><\/p>\n

Sudanese journalist tortured, beaten in two-day interrogation<\/a> (2 October 2014)<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera editor-in-chief summoned by Sudan security services<\/a> (4 April 2013)<\/p>\n

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