Security questions journalists in East Darfur

Four journalists in Ed Daein, capital of East Darfur, were questioned by the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) on Sunday.

Khaifa Kusheib, working for the East Darfur state broadcast corporation, told Radio Dabanga that he and three colleagues were questioned about their coverage of the secondary school students’ protest on Tuesday.

“Abubakar Mohamed Eisa, correspondent for El Intibaha daily newspaper, Mohamed Ismail Ninat, correspondent for El Tayar, publicist Abdallah El Ageed, and I were questioned from 9am until 5pm about our reporting.”

The students took to the streets on Tuesday, in protest against the recurrent power outages that are disrupting their study at night. The Sudanese secondary school exams started today.

“We told the security officers that it is our profession to cover news in East Darfur, and that this does not mean that we were not involved in the protests.”