Journalists: Sudanese government is not committed to constitution

Khartoum-A group of journalists and human rights activists have urged the government to take practical steps toward the freedoms of expression in general and press in particular. Referring to the non-commitment to the constitution by the government, they demanded decisions not promises.


The editor in Chief of Al-Ayam newspaper Mahjoub Mohamed Saleh told the Citizen newspaper that the news circulated by some newspapers on the National Congress trend to expand the press freedoms, if true, will be an important step; however, it needs serious and comprehensive dialogue with journalists, publishers and all bodies related to journalistic field.
Ustaz Faisal Mohamed Saleh has said that this step is good and required if true, saying the Sudanese press has suffered much from the government and its security organs that tried to silence journalists and drive a number of newspapers of the market.
In the meantime, Utsaz Mohamed Al-Fateh, the member of the Sudanese Journalists network Secretariat, has told the Citizen that the National Congress wants to make the freedom of expression a commodity that is subject to the demand and supply rule, saying that the targeting of press and the violations against the freedom of expression are not less than the crimes and violations being committed by the government in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan.