Sudan
Government lifts publication ban, jails editorPosted Oct 25 2008
Days after a publication ban was lifted, the daily English-language paper The Citizen found itself in poor standing with the government. Editor Nhial Bol was arrested Oct. 10 in the capital of semi-autonomous South Sudan, Juba, due to an article written about corruption in the South.
Reporters Without Borders reports that the publication of Bol’s article regarding high salaries paid to justice ministry officials led to his arrest and subsequent transportation to Juba’s Malakia police station. As he was arrested on a Friday, he was unable to request release on bail. In a statement released the same day as his arrest, Bol asserted that the government should have instead sued his newspaper because the issue was a civil one.