Afrigather Khartoum — On Monday, the Data Crimes and Digital Investigations Prosecution, directed the Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority to dam the web site of El Sudani newspaper, following a criticism about an data crime.
Attaf Mohamed Mukhtar, Editor-in-Chief of El Sudani newspaper, instructed Radio Dabanga that the information outlet was not formally knowledgeable in regards to the resolution.
“The location was suspended with out a warning. I used to be not even summoned in regards to the criticism,” he said. “The prosecution solely notified El Sudani‘s authorized advisor.”
He stated that the competence of arrest belongs to the judiciary and to not the prosecution, and harassed that they’ll take “the mandatory measures”.
The prosecutor who made the choice, Abdelmunim Hafi, is similar one who suspended El Sudani and about 30 other online newspapers in July last year on the pretext of stirring public unrest.
Earlier this month, the African Heart for Justice and Peace Research (ACJPS) lamented the continued repression of journalists in Sudan. Regardless of continued harassment and censorship of journalists within the nation, the ACJPS report as effectively congratulated of 39 new elected members of the Sudan Journalists Syndicate secretariat on August 29.
