Sudan Army-Affiliated Group Detains Journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa

New York — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa, a contributor to local news website Hekaiyat and Baankhi Press, who was detained by the Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while returning from a work assignment in central Sudan’s Wad Madani.

According to a statement by the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS), members of the armed group led by Commander Abu Aqla Keikel, which…