November 3, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese security service today arrested another journalist keeping up pressure on Darfurian activists in the capital Khartoum.
The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) on Wednesday arrested Jaafar Subki Ibrahim, who works for Al-Sahafa daily newspaper. His detention took place after a crackdown on journalists and rights activists from Darfur region.
“Jaafar was interrogated by the security service today morning and they returned to arrest him during the evening from his office,” a source close to the journalist told Sudan Tribune.
Sudanese security forces raided the office of the Human Rights and Democracy Network arresting several Darfur activists and a journalist working with Holland based Radio Dabanga on October 30.
Abdelrahman Adam is accused by the Attorney General several charges including “crimes against the state,” said Radio Dabanga in a statement released yesterday.
In a statement put out today, the hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID, said concerned by the arrest of the journalists and human rights journalists and called “for a swift resolution to the matter”.
On Tuesday, Washington directed its special envoy to Sudan to work for the release of the journalist and rights activists announced U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley.
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