Khartoum, Jan 16 (AFP\/APP):Sudan has revoked the licence of Al Jazeera Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of “unprofessional” TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said Sunday.<\/p>\n
“The Sudanese authorities announce they revoked the accreditation of Al Jazeera Mubasher and barred its team from working in Sudan,” tweeted the news channel.<\/p>\n
Sudan has been gripped by political turmoil since top military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan launched a coup on October 25.<\/p>\n
The military power grab triggered mass protests by pro-democracy movements demanding civilian rule that has met with a deadly crackdown.<\/p>\n
At least 64 protesters have been killed, according to pro-democracy medics, and a police officer has also lost his life.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera has given prominent coverage to the demonstrations and late last year also aired an interview with Burhan.<\/p>\n
In November, days after the interview, it said that its Khartoum bureau chief Al-Musalami al-Kabbashi had been arrested at his home.<\/p>\n
Kabbashi was released three days later with no official charges announced against him.<\/p>\n
The editor-in-chief of the armed forces newspaper Ibrahim al-Hory later accused Kabbashi of publishing “false” information and of airing “old video footage… that instigated strife” in the country.<\/p>\n
Burhan declared a state of emergency on October 25, ousted the government and detained the civilian leadership.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Abdulla Hamdok was placed under house arrest but later reinstated in a deal with the military.<\/p>\n
Hamdok then resigned on January 2 warning that Sudan was at a dangerous crossroads threatening its very “survival”.<\/p>\n
Burhan has insisted the military’s move “was not a coup” but a push to “rectify the course of the transition”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Khartoum, Jan 16 (AFP\/APP):Sudan has revoked the licence of Al Jazeera Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of “unprofessional” TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said Sunday. “The Sudanese authorities announce they revoked the accreditation of Al Jazeera Mubasher and barred its […]<\/p>\n
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