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<span class="date-display-single">Sat, 02/06/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/4295">Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir</a></span>, <a href="/taxonomy/term/2517">Khartoum</a></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image">
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<p>Press freedom in Sudan is rapidly deteriorating, with confiscation of newspapers by the security agency becoming a norm. </p>
<p>The scope of violations committed against publications and journalists by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) is widening by the day.</p>
<p>Since early May, the NISS has confiscated more than 14 editions of different newspapers in Sudan, suspended more than 13 journalists from writing in newspapers, and identified about 20 taboo topics not to be tackled by the press.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51228" target="_blank">read more</a></p>