The Sudanese Journalists Syndicate announced its rejection and condemnation of a police force taking a journalist from his workplace in a manner it described as “humiliating” and amounting to the crime of kidnapping and illegal arrest.

Masked gunmen arrested the journalist of (Al-Hirak) newspaper Ahmed Gasm Al-Sayed, before he was released later on bail.

A police force assaulted the journalist, Ekhlas Nimir, and detained her in one of their cars.

The police arrested an employee of the Tax Bureau in Blue Nile State, on the grounds of a report insulting the reputation of a blogger at the Informatics Prosecution in Khartoum.

The Central Darfur state government issued a decision declaring a state of emergency in all parts of the state for a period of one month.