{"id":25458,"date":"2011-08-10T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T15:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25458"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:31:24","slug":"sudan-newspapers-confiscated-by-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25458","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Newspapers confiscated by security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 8, issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/Sudanese-newspaper-seized-for,39784\" target=\"_blank\">Al-Ahdath<\/a>, a <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudanese<\/a> daily newspaper,\u00a0were confiscated by security forces.\u00a0Officials have yet to provide an explanation for the confiscation. Previously, officials pressured the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2010\/07\/sudan-separatist-newspaper-shu\/\" target=\"_blank\">editor of Al-Ahdath<\/a> to retract articles written about violence in South Sudan.From the time leading up to\u00a0Sudan&#8217;s July 9 split, there\u00a0has been a\u00a0crackdown on the press in the North. In June, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/07\/new-media-crackdown-prior-to-south-sudan-split\/\" target=\"_blank\">nine journalists<\/a> were fined for &#8220;defamation&#8221; and &#8220;publishing fake news&#8221;, and\u00a0Ajras Al-Hurriya newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/07\/post-split-sudan-silences-dissenting-voices\/\">was confiscated<\/a> after reporting on the violent actions of government forces in South Kordufan and Nuba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 8, issues of Al-Ahdath, a Sudanese daily newspaper,\u00a0were confiscated by security forces.\u00a0Officials have yet to provide an explanation for the confiscation. Previously, officials pressured the editor of Al-Ahdath to retract articles written about violence in South Sudan.From the time leading up to\u00a0Sudan&#8217;s July 9 split, there\u00a0has been a\u00a0crackdown on the press in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[3624,727,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84678,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25458\/revisions\/84678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}