Tag Archives: Freedom of Expression

(27 July 2012) This report documents the response of Sudanese authorities to popular protests that have taken place throughout Sudan since 16 June 2012, calling for regime change, freedom, peace and justice. Police and the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) have used excessive force to disperse and arrest protestors, …

(21 June 2012) In June 2012 the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of Sudan launched a renewed campaign to intimidate, harass, and silence the media in the country largely through the prevention of distribution of newspapers containing sensitive material and through pre-press censorship. Below find the list of relevant …

(21 June 2012) In June 2012 the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) of Sudan launched a renewed campaign to intimidate, harass, and silence the media in the country largely through the prevention of distribution of newspapers containing sensitive material and through pre-press censorship. Below find the list of relevant …

(23 March 2012) In two different cases the week of 12 March, the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested two people, one of whom died while in police custody.  The disparate nature of these incidents illustrates the latitude that the NISS has been given under the 2010 National Security …

(7 March 2012)  On the 5th of March in Daim, Khartoum several people were injured and one died as a result of an unprovoked attack by the Public Order Police.  The following day the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) imposed a media blackout, refusing to allow newspapers in Khartoum to investigate or …

On 25 January 2012, five members of Grifina, a non-violent youth led resistance movement, were arrested in Sudan.  These arrests give evidence of a government campaign targeting youth activists.      The five activists participated in a forum organized by Grifina to commemorate the 2005 Beja massacre at Port Sudan, …

(January 2012) In the months immediately preceding and following South Sudan’s referendum on independence, the Sudanese authorities launched a renewed campaign of systematic repression of freedom of expression featuring new tactics to intimidate and silence independent media in the country. Historically, the Sudanese government’s main method of silencing media was …

(October 2009) On 27 September 2009, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir announced that the government would cease the onerous pre-publication censorship regulations which had been placed on journalists in Sudan. The president’s statement, however, was immediately followed by indications that the move was not intended to create an open environment for …