Sudan's NISS backtracks on imposing conditions for lifting ban on opposition newspaper
- Article <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49811#tabs-1> - Comments (0) <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49811#tabs-2> [image: email]Email<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=enviar_email_articulo&id_article=49811> [image: print]Print<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?iframe&page=imprimable&id_article=49811> [image: pdf]Save<http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=spipdf&spipdf=spipdf_article&id_article=49811&nom_fichier=article_49811> [image: separation] [image: increase] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49811#> [image: decrease] <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article49811#> [image: separation] [image: separation] ------------------------------ February 1, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - The National Council for Press and Publications (NCPP) in Sudan announced that it received a formal notification from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) that they agreed to lift all restrictions on the Popular Congress Party (PCP) newspaper known as Ra'y al-Sha'b. [image: JPEG - 20.5 kb]*A man protests against the storming by security forces of two newspaper offices in Khartoum in May 2010 ((c) 2009 AFP)* The opposition party revealed this week that the NISS informed that it lifted the ban imposed on Ra'y al-Sha'b since more than two years ago. But later the PCP said that the security apparatus attached 19 conditions for the daily to resume publication including refraining from criticizing officials or dealing with corruption issues which were swiftly rejected by the editorial board and the party. The NCPP Secretary General al-Obeid Marwih said in press statements that the newspaper can now resume publication once they comply with the NCPP's usual procedural and administrative regulations. Ali, Shummo, NCPP Chairman thanked NISS for their move and expressed hope that the restrictions would be lifted on other dailies as well. The paper was a usual target of the security crackdown and was suspended several times and also saw it copies seized before distribution. The PCP split from the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) following 1999's bitter power struggle between president Omer Hassan al-Bashir and the Islamist leader Hassan Al-Turabi. The latter was ousted from his post as parliament speaker. Al-Turabi afterwards established the PCP and has since been a vociferous critic of the very regime whose army-backed seizure of power in 1989 he orchestrated. The NISS routinely seizes newspapers after publication and shut down others while imposing pre-publication censorship to prevent dailies from addressing certain political, military and security issues. Dozens of columnists were also banned from writing in newspapers under NISS orders. The NISS intensified its crackdown on press in the country, introducing tough new measures to prevent media outlets from covering recent anti-government protests, which erupted last September following the lifting of subsidies on fuel. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqnFwHJk-s%3Do3X4_R%3DxTHDO%2B-GbA4_2s04Qs9zGfRYZ4Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
