A witness suggested that this force was affiliated with the Central Investigation Police, as they were arrested near al-Farouk cemetery, south of Khartoum.
Khartoum/Altraghyeer : Sarah Taj Alsir
A security force has arrested foreign journalists affiliated with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) while covering protests in the Sudanese capital on Monday.
A witness told Altaghyeer: that the force was riding in a car without number plates, and that it took them to an unknown location.
The witness suggested that this force was affiliated with the Central Investigation Police, as they were arrested near the Farouk cemetery, south of Khartoum.
The BBC’s team of reporters included reporter Firas Kilani, producer Mohamed Ibrahim and photographer Mark Bonsky.
The team arrived in the Sudanese capital 5 days ago and obtained all official permissions and permits to perform its journalistic duties.
For its part, the Sudanese Professionals Association issued a statement, in which it affirmed its condemnation of the arrest of journalists and the restriction of their movement.
“We in the Sudanese Professionals Association condemn the restriction of the journalists’s movement and preventing them from carrying out their work,” the statement said.
And repeated incidents of attacks on journalists during their coverage of the current protests taking place in Sudan.
Yesterday, Saturday, Al Jazeera TV team, which is responsible for covering an event in support of the military coup in the capital, Khartoum, was severely beaten by army supporters.
Large groups of participants in the march attacked the channel’s journalist and producer, Abdel Raouf Taha, and his fellow photographer, Al-Tayeb Hassan, and beat and robbed them.
Taha revealed the incident in a Facebook post, which he wrote from inside a hospital in the capital, undergoing a series of medical examinations, to ensure his safety.
