Sudan: UK Denies Sudan Journalist Visa to Attend Award Ceremony

Amsterdam / London — Widespread condemnation has followed the UK government’s refusal to grant Sudanese journalist Mohamed Amin a visa to enter the UK to attend the One World Media Journalist of the Year award ceremony, for which he had been shortlisted, a move that Amin himself calls discriminatory.

Speaking to Radio Dabanga, Mohamed Amin, a freelance correspondent for Middle East Eye said that his visa application was rejected for discriminatory reasons, in his opinion. He described the…