Local media in Khartoum reported a bounty of 100,000 US dollars placed on the head of the UN special envoy Jan Pronk by the leader of the Sudanese General Students' Union, Mohamed Abdallah Sheikh Idris.
In reaction to threats made against Mr Pronk by militant youth, Sudanese police arrested the chief editor of al-Watan newspaper Sidahmed al-Khalifa to investigate the announcement made by the islamist student organisation.
Full article (ST Khartoum) March 8, 2006.
Update Mar 9: Al-Azaim was also detained.
No comments:
Post a Comment