Sudan: Journalist threatened with murder

12 Dec 2011

A Sudanese editor has received a death threat following the publication of an article critical of the country’s president, Salva Kiir.

Dengdit Ayok, vice-editor of the English-speaking newspaper The Destiny, was arrested and detained for two weeks for publishing a news story on the marriage of the president’s daughter to an Ethiopian. The article was deemed unethical by Sudanese authorities, who also said the newspaper continued publishing “isolated topics that should not be published for the public”.

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  1. Ambrose Chapel

    March 28, 2012 at 16:34

    Well, this is actually not Sudan anymore. In fact, South Sudan became an independent country on July 9th, 2011..

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