Following the murder of the chief editor of the Sudanese independent daily, Al-Wifaq, the government of Sudan has resumed the practice of pre-print censorship of the national press.

According to the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), “pre-print censorship has resumed in Sudan despite constitutional guarantees for the respect of freedom of expression and the media.” Over the past week, teams of security officers had reportedly toured print and newsrooms in Khartoum to issue warnings and conduct pre-print inspections of newspapers in order to censor media coverage of recent events.

The human rights group also reports that editors have been “warned to refrain from publicising or discussing the abduction and murder of Mohamed Taha Mohamed Ahmed.”

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