31/3/2022: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor – Harassments against journalists in Sudan after the military coup

Having recorded 55 attacks on journalists by the coup regime from 25 Oct 2021 to 8 March 2022, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor call for investigations into attacks on journalists in Sudan and conformity to international legal frameworks that protect the free press.

Euro-Med Monitor note obstacles to independent journalism in Sudan, including emergency laws and articles of the Penal Code that censor the media and intimidate journalists and activists, with coverage of events that followed the coup and the human rights violations against protesters “considered red lines”.

Security forces violations against journalists and media include breaking into and closing press offices and institutions, harassment and arbitrary detention and physical and psychological attacks.