Protest against detention of El Hayat journalist in Sudan’s capital

About hundred Sudanese journalists staged a protest in front of the National Press and Publications Council in Khartoum today. Journalist Khaled Saad told Radio Dabanga that they decided on the protest in solidarity with El Nur Ahmed El Nur, a journalist working for the London-based Arabic newspaper El Hayat in Khartoum. He was detained by security officers on Thursday, for reporting about the National Electricity Corporation. The protesters demanded El Nur’s immediate release. They submitted a memorandum to the director of the National Press and Publications Council, Ali Shumu, in which they condemned the continuous interventions by the security apparatus in the newspapers’ publication policies, and the repeated confiscations of print-runs. Family members of El Nur participated in the protest. File photo: A journalist holding a banner with the words “Kill Me .. Dont Violate My Freedom” (sudanwhrds.wordpress.com) Related:‘Political detainees in Sudan should be released immediately’: activists (27 October 2014)Sudan security detains journalist in Khartoum (24 October 2014)