KHARTOUM —
Sudan has revoked the license of Al-Jazeera
Mubasher, part of the Qatar-based network, accusing it of
"unprofessional" TV coverage of anti-coup protests, the channel said
Sunday.
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"The Sudanese authorities announce they
revoked the accreditation of Al-Jazeera Mubasher and barred its team from
working in Sudan," tweeted the news channel.
Sudan has been gripped by political turmoil
since top military leader General
Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan launched a coup on
October 25.
The military power grab triggered mass
protests by pro-democracy movements demanding civilian rule that has met with a
deadly crackdown.
At least 64 protesters have been killed,
according to pro-democracy medics, and a police officer has also lost his life.
Al Jazeera has given prominent coverage to
the demonstrations and late last year also aired an interview with Burhan.
In November, days after the interview, it
said that its Khartoum bureau chief Al-Musalami Al-Kabbashi had been arrested
at his home.
Kabbashi was released three days later with
no official charges announced against him.
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.
Burhan declared a state of emergency on
October 25, ousted the government and detained the civilian leadership.
Prime Minister
Abdulla Hamdok was placed
under house arrest but later reinstated in a deal with the military.
Hamdok then resigned on January 2 warning
that Sudan was at a dangerous crossroads threatening its very
"survival".
Burhan has insisted the military's move
"was not a coup" but a push to "rectify the course of the
transition".
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