The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, has urged the government of Sudan to immediately release Osman Mirghani, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Tayar, who has been in detention at an undisclosed location since February 22. According to information gathered by IPI, Mirghani was arrested at his office by […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, today vehemently condemned the decision of the government of Sudan to withdraw the accreditation of three Al Jazeera journalists. The Qatar-based Al Jazeera Media Network said Tuesday that the Sudanese Security Agency had decided to withdraw the accreditation of Al […]

Beginning early last April, observers of the press situation in Sudan have monitored the emergence of a new trend in which security services have tightened their grip on newspapers and stifled their ability to breathe. Ever since, the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) has doubled its already harsh punishment against newspapers defying its […]

Last Monday, Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) confiscated the print-runs of 10 daily newspapers in the morning without giving any reason – an action that came against the backdrop of an ongoing brutal security campaign against the freedoms of speech and the press in a country that consistently tops international lists of states […]