Sudanese security seizes three dailies over "breaches"

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February 20, 2014 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's National Intelligence and Security
Services (NISS) apparatus confiscated the Thursday edition of three
newspapers that included al-Ahram al-Youm, al-Watan and Akhir-Lahza dailies.
*Sudanese newspaper vendors at a bus station in Khartoum (file/AP)*

But a source in the NISS media department told*Sudan Tribune* that they did
not seize those newspapers but disrupted their distribution swiftly after
they were published.

The source accused these newspapers of committing "numerous breaches"
including their coverage of recent developments regarding the dispute with
Egypt over the border Halayeb region describing it as a national sovereign
issue.

"Halayeb is a red line," the source said.

The source also noted their coverage of issues that are still pending such
as the Cottons Company adding that these measures will continue as long as
newspapers continue to violate the journalistic code of ethics and NISS
instructions.

He asserted that editors in chiefs have previously been warned about
avoiding certain topics.

Al-Jareeda newspaper resumed publication a week ago after being suspended
by NISS since January 26th.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in
Sudan Mashood Baderin said at a press conference on Wednesday , he met with
NISS officials to convey to them complaints of restrictions on the press.

Baderin said that NISS officials told him that all measures taken by them
against the press are done through legal procedures".

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