SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Radio Dabanga- Journalists detained and dismissed in Sudan

20/6/19: Radio Dabanga- Journalists detained and dismissed in Sudan

Radio Dabanga reports on the recent detentions and dismissals of a number of journalists in Sudan.

 The Sudanese Journalists Network (SJN) released a statement stating that editor in chief of the El Sayha newspaper, Abdelrahman El Amin, was dismissed from his job, after critiquing the Rapid Support Forces and their leader Hemeti. Another journalist is reported to have been detained by RSF, questioned and then subsequently handed over to the country’s intelligence and security services (NISS).

 It is highlighted too that a mass dismissal of journalists has also occurred at the national Sudanese Television, which the SJN see as a ‘return of [the] elements of the ousted regime who will use the newsrooms again to falsify facts and mislead the public opinion with fake information