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A Sudanese editor at the head of the country's largest journalists' union has been arrested, the union said.
The Sudanese Journalists' Union has called on the ruling Transitional Military Council to "release immediately" its president, Sadiq al-Rizaigi, also editor-in-chief of Al-Sayha newspaper, or to try him.
A prominent journalist from Rizaigi newspaper told the AFP news agency that security forces had taken him away from the newspaper's offices.
"We do not know where he is being held or the reasons for his detention," said Awad Jad Al-Sayid, editor-in-chief of Al-Sahya.
Arrests for attempted coup d'etat
Rizaigi's detention Wednesday came as the army claimed to have arrested a general, several security officers and security officials after a foiled coup attempt announced earlier this month. this.
He stated that he had arrested General Hashim Abdel Muttalib, Chief of Chiefs of Staff, and several officers of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), as well as leaders of the Islamic Movement and the Congress Party. national.
On July 11, the army announced that she had foiled an attempted coup without specifying when.
The Sudanese media also reported that General Bakri Hbadan Saleh, a former deputy prime minister and prime minister, is among those arrested, the figurehead of the 1989 coup that brought President Omar al-Bashir power.
Ali Karty, a former foreign minister, and Zubair Ahmed Hbadan, a former finance minister, were also arrested, according to sources who spoke to the Reuters news agency.
In Bashir's three decades of rule, the press has been severely restricted, according to media activists.
NISS agents have regularly repressed journalists or confiscated full newspapers for publishing articles deemed critical of al-Bashir politics.
The media monitoring group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has recorded at least 100 cases of press freedom violations during protests that eventually led to the overthrow of Al-Bashir in April.
RSF ranks Sudan 175th out of 180 countries in its 2019 World Press Freedom Index.
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