Sudan: A Sudanese journalist was jailed for criticizing Omar al-Bashir’s family and accusing her of corruption

Ibb News 4 Safar 1438 H corresponding to 24/10/2017
A Sudanese court on Monday sentenced a prominent newspaper editor to six months in jail for publishing an article accusing the family of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of corruption, a journalist told AFP.
The same court sentenced the author of the article, which was published in 2012 to 3 years suspended

“The court ordered me to pay ten thousand Sudanese pounds (equivalent to 1428 US dollars) or six months in prison,” said Othman Mirghani, editor of the independent daily Al-Tiyad,
“I decided not to pay the money and now I am waiting for the authorities to take me to jail,

The editor of the newspaper “current” that the article, which was published in his newspaper in 2012 and written by Mohamed Zine El Abidine “carried charges of corruption of the family of Bashir”

After the article was published, the security and intelligence service made a statement to the court, which issued its verdict on Monday

Osman Mirghani was known for his harsh criticism of the Sudanese government and the spread of corruption scandals through his newspaper, which has been suspended several times for years, and the Security Service and intelligence confiscated from time to time printed copies of the newspaper

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) report, 2016, ranked Sudan among the most recent rankings of freedom of the press in the world, pointing out that the security and intelligence apparatus monitors newspapers and persecutes journalists

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