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鈥淧ens Under Siege鈥� is a comprehensive analysis of press freedom in Sudan covering the 16-month period between Aug. 2011 and Dec. 2012. The report was independently compiled by Sudanese freelance journalist Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir.
Through interviews with Sudan-based reporters, editors, and publishers, Abdelgadir documented a multitude of press freedom restrictions. Such restrictions, he found, included both highly visible incidences of government-led attacks on the media newspaper closures; suspensions of newspaper licenses; the withholding and/or confiscating of newspaper editions at the printing press; arrests, torture, and harassment of journalists; and deportations of foreign journalists), as well as less public efforts to silence critical journalism (economic 鈥渨ars鈥� against newspapers, the withholding of government advertisements in media outlets critical of the regime, and censorship of newspapers and websites).