Rai al-Shaab shut down by criminal govt of Sudan

Sudanese authorities shut down an opposition newspaper and arrested three of its journalists on Sunday. A press freedom advocacy group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has condemned the government’s seizure of all copies and equipment in the offices of the daily paper Rai al-Shaab, published by the opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP). According to CPJ the deputy editor Abu Zar al-Amin and two reporters, Ashraf Abdel Aziz and Dahab Ibrahim, were arrested and are being held by authorities without charge. Rai al-Shaab’s editor-in-chief, Yassin Omar al-Imam, said the paper was shut after publishing a report suggesting that Iran built a weapons factory in Sudan to supply insurgents in Africa and the Middle East. Just hours earlier on Sunday a PCP leader, Hassan al-Turabi, was detained for allegedly disseminating hate materials and abusing of Sudan’s foreign relations, according to a report by TV network CNN.