Sudan shuts down Aljazeera bureau

[Newsjock]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7293DA56-2820-4CCF-A309-BC3C0CAC59B8.htm

The Sudanese authorities on Thursday decided to close Aljazeera's bureau in Khartoum without giving any reason and arrested Islam Salih, the bureau chief.

Minutes before his arrest, Salih informed his head office in Qatar that the authorities had decided to close the Aljazeera office. He quoted the Sudanese security forces to this effect.

On Wednesday, the office was were raided by the security forces and Salih taken in for questioning.

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[La_Serpiente]

1. What?!?

Al-Jazeera gets shut down for speaking the truth? Wow.

[OrAnarch]

2. Is Sudan one of our "friends"?

n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. It's getting there

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3303581.stm

"Last week, a senior US government official said that a peace deal could bring financial assistance and a reconsideration of Sudan's place on the US list of terrorism-sponsoring nations, according to the AFP news agency."

I think just last night on the BBC (radio) World Service, they said this could make Sudan the first government to get off the USA's terrorism list through policy changes, rather than regime change.

So anti-al-Jazeera moves could help them too.

[izzie]

4. Reported with out Borders has a good item on this.

Some place in the last few days I read that camera men were also in trouble as the govt. in some countrie are using them to find out who are in the streets and doing things agaist the govt. I guess it has always been used But these men on st. are really in trouble.

[loudnclear]

5. The US has given license to any nation to thwart free press and democracy

We did just what the experts predicted: destablize the entire world and make it easy for true despots to rule by oppression.