{"id":188197,"date":"2013-01-27T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/security-services-summon-sudanese-journalist-freed-hours-later\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:17:00","slug":"security-services-summon-sudanese-journalist-freed-hours-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/security-services-summon-sudanese-journalist-freed-hours-later","title":{"rendered":"Security services summon Sudanese journalist, freed hours later"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sudanese security services summoned the journalist and activist Faisal Mohamed Saleh on Saturday to the office of the Security Media Department in Khartoum.<\/p>\n

Saleh told Radio Dabanga an element of the security services called him on his mobile phone and demanded him to come by the office in Khartoum 2.<\/p>\n

The journalist \u201csimply waited around the office\u201d for four hours during which he was not subjected to any type of questioning.<\/p>\n

Afterwards an employee asked him to fill out a seven-page form with personal information about him, his family members, friends and his \u2018non-journalist contacts\u2019.<\/p>\n

Once Saleh was done filling out the form, he was asked to leave the Security Media Department office.<\/p>\n

Faisal Mohamed Saleh received repeated calls by the security services in May 2012. This was following an invitation made by the TV channel Al-Jazeera for him to comment on a national speech delivered by President Omar al-Bashir when he called the SPLM \u201cinsects\u201d.<\/p>\n

During his appearance, Saleh called the president\u2019s comments \u201cirresponsible and unacceptable\u201d.<\/p>\n

The journalist was then charged by the security services and acquitted by a Khartoum court.<\/p>\n

Photo: Faisal Mohamed Saleh (AsSudan.net)<\/em><\/p>\n

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