SUDAN INSIGHT ALERT: Radio Dabanga – Journalists call for ‘full and uncompromised internet services’ to be restored in Sudan
Radio Dabanga report that the Sudanese Journalists Association for Human Rights (JAHR) called on the authorities in Sudan to restore full and uncompromised internet services, as it is one of the means that underpins the public’s the right to know the truth and the right to information.
JAHR points out that “cutting off of the Internet, among its many economic and social damages, prevented print and electronic media from being published, and from reaching the public in Sudan. “At the same time depriving the Sudanese public of the right to “browse” and the right to know the news, to follow current events from various sources, and it deprives every one of the right to benefit from the Internet, including ‘citizen journalism’ and the prevention of freedom of expression through social media and applications”.