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Free Expression & the LawSouth Sudan has yet to enact media laws. Editors and journalists say they are especially vulnerable to harassment, arbitrary arrest, and censorship in the absence of laws establishing a legal mechanism to protect media freedom.
South Sudan Highlights
Free Expression & the LawAuthorities have been holding two state broadcast journalists without charge since last week. Local journalists said they suspect the arrests are related to coverage of protests and ethnic clashes in the northwestern town of Wau.
AttacksIsaiah Diing Abraham Chan Awuol, a journalist who was critical of the South Sudanese authorities and had received threats, was shot dead in the capital, Juba.
South Sudan CensorshipIf the flow of information in Sudan is ever to be free, Khartoum will need to change the way it treats the media, according to a report by journalist Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir.
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Human Rights Watch (Human Rights Watch)
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Committee to Protect Journalists
International Press Institute
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