{"id":26000,"date":"2011-08-24T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26000"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:35:10","slug":"sudan-copies-of-newspapers-confiscated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26000","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Copies of newspapers confiscated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between 20 and 23 August, Al-Jaridah, a Khartoum-based Arabic daily newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/Sudanese-daily-to-sue-security,39918\" target=\"_blank\">had issues confiscated<\/a> by members of <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudan&#8217;s<\/a> National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). According to a press release, no official reason was given for the suspension. However, editor-in-chief Saad Al-Din Ibrahim believes that the paper was suspended because of their refusal to comply with the NISS&#8217;s persistence in interfering with the paper&#8217;s editorial and recruitment policy. Recently, officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/08\/sudan-newspapers-confiscated-by-security-forces\/\" target=\"_blank\">have confiscated<\/a> a number of publications without explanation, are currently revising Sudan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/08\/sudans-new-press-laws-will-threaten-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\">press and publications law<\/a>, and are considering pre-publication censorship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 20 and 23 August, Al-Jaridah, a Khartoum-based Arabic daily newspaper, had issues confiscated by members of Sudan&#8217;s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). According to a press release, no official reason was given for the suspension. However, editor-in-chief Saad Al-Din Ibrahim believes that the paper was suspended because of their refusal to comply with [&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":[3695,727,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000"}],"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=26000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26011,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26000\/revisions\/26011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}