جهاز المخابرات اللاوطنى يوسع اعتقالاته ضد ابناء دارفورو يعتقل الصحفيين جعفر السبكى ونورالدين

Quote: – Sudanese intelligence agents arrested on Wednesday a Darfuri journalist working for one the country's leading independent newspapers, As-Sahafa, the daily's editor-in-chief said. "At 4:00 pm (13H00 GMT) today, someone claiming to work for the intelligence services came to the newspaper and arrested journalist Gaafar al-Subki," Annur Ahmed Annur said. "We do not know where he is." Annur said Gaafar covered stories dealing with the war-torn western region of Darfur, as well as the presidency and international affairs. Since Saturday, Sudanese authorities have arrested several activists and public figures, including Abdelrahman Adam, who works for Radio Dabanga, a popular Dutch-based short-wave station that broadcasts in Darfuri dialects. The station's office in Khartoum was reportedly closed down. On Tuesday, the United States condemned the reported arrests of Darfur activists in recent days and said it would raise the issue with Khartoum. US State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said the "United States is deeply concerned by the reported arrests of several human rights activists and the closure of the Darfuri radio station's offices in Khartoum." "Radio Dabanga is a very important source of information, real time information in Darfur," Crowley said. Separately, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said Washington "strongly condemns" the arrests and the reported closure of Radio Dabanga's Khartoum office. "These arrests indicate an emerging pattern of harassment and intimidation by the government of Sudan against civil society in advance of the scheduled January 9 referenda," Rice said. She was referring to votes on independence for southern Sudan and Abyei, part of a 2005 peace deal that ended a two-decade old civil war in Sudan which left an estimated two million dead