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GLOBAL JOURNALIST Winter 2008<br />
World Watch<br />
a letter from the NPCC sent to<br />
the Sudan Tribune Sept. 1 stating<br />
that the paper was closing for<br />
administrative reasons. According<br />
to Reporters Without Borders, this<br />
letter followed a run-in with security<br />
forces at the printing location<br />
of The Citizen. Security charged<br />
the scene, informing employees<br />
of The Citizen that its publication<br />
was prohibited.<br />
Days after the ban was lifted,<br />
The Citizen found itself back<br />
in poor standing with the government.<br />
Editor Nhial Bol was<br />
arrested Oct. 10 in the capital of<br />
semi-autonomous South Sudan,<br />
Juba, due to an article written<br />
about corruption in the South.<br />
Reporters Without Borders reports<br />
that the publication of Bol’s<br />
article regarding high salaries<br />
paid to justice ministry officials<br />
led to his arrest and subsequent<br />
transportation to Juba’s Malakia’s<br />
police station. Furthermore, as he<br />
was arrested on a Friday, he was<br />
unable to request release on bail.<br />
In a statement released the same<br />
day as his arrest, Bol asserted<br />
that the government should have<br />
instead sued his newspaper because<br />
the issue was a civil one.<br />
Three days after his arrest,<br />
Bol was released. According to<br />
Reporters Without Borders, Bol’s<br />
detention resulted from accusations<br />
of libel and publishing false<br />
information, although charges<br />
have yet to be filed. A court date<br />
has thus far not been set.<br />
Television reporter in hiding<br />
Reporter Fahem Boukadous<br />
is wanted by authorities on<br />
charges of belonging to a<br />
criminal organization, spreading<br />
reports liable to disrupt<br />
public order, according to<br />
Reporters Without Borders. These<br />
charges stem from his coverage of<br />
protests in the Gafsa mining region<br />
for the independent Tunisian<br />
television station Al-Hiwar Attounsi<br />
and his help in putting foreign<br />
news media in contact with the<br />
region’s labor leaders. Boukadous<br />
has been in hiding since July 5.<br />
Boukadous was the first television<br />
reporter to cover the unrest<br />
and demonstrations in the phosphate<br />
mining area. His footage<br />
was used by leading pan-Arab<br />
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