SPLM withdraws officers from Sudan press censorship unit
November 8, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has withdrawn its officers in the National Security Service who work in the press department because the activities of the section are anti-constitutional.
En accordance with a peace agreement signed in 2005, the SPLM has appointed a number of its members in the National Security and Intelligence Services. The national security law is not upgraded to match with the interim constitution of July 2005 which calls for democratic transition in the country
The Vice President of Administration Board of Ajaras Al-Huriya Deng Kock who is also a Member of Parliament – SPLM told reporters in a press conference he held today in Khartoum that the former rebel movement decided to withdraw its staff from the press and publications unit in the security service.
He further added that this decision had been taken by the party because the crackdown of the press and journalists is opposed to the spirit and the text of a peace deal concluded for peace and democracy in Sudan.
Kock was speaking after the ban of publication decided by the security service to sanction two daily for their three day strike earlier this week.
Five daily newspapers would organize a protest at the constitutional court next Tuesday to demand the abrogation of unconstitutional provisions in the national security and press laws.
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omons stephen
SPLM withdraws officers from Sudan press censorship unit
withdrawal has be come an oder of the day for SPLM,it’s better to find the modality for settling the issues then guitting.This will show our weakness,we have to debate with the Arab,let us not leave them to defeat us politically.
Moses Kur Akech
SPLM withdraws officers from Sudan press censorship unit
good step!
Even though, SPLM responded lately, this move demonstrates the Party’s willingness to restore freedom of press in the country as per CPA. SPLM has been turning blind eye on this kind of tyrannical censorship since the birth of the Government of National Unity in 05. The preliminary battle for major reforms on the regime bureaucracies would have started with media censorship, because a viable transition can never be successful in an atmosphere where freedom of press is deliberately frustrated.
SPLM has to actively utilise its bipartisanship with the regime to weed out this unacceptable censorship as a significant measure to opening ways for democracy.