{"id":199670,"date":"2025-06-06T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-forum-condemns-proposed-press-law-amendments-calls-for-independent-media\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:41:46","slug":"sudan-media-forum-condemns-proposed-press-law-amendments-calls-for-independent-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-media-forum-condemns-proposed-press-law-amendments-calls-for-independent-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Media Forum Condemns Proposed Press Law Amendments, Calls for Independent Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The following is a statement from the Sudan Media Forum, a conglomerate of Sudanese independent media houses that collaboratively advocate for press freedom and journalists&#8217; rights. The Ayin Network is a proud member of this forum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">The Sudan Media Forum today voiced deep concern over the outcomes of a recent workshop held in Port Sudan on May 26-27, 2025, which discussed proposed amendments to the Press and Publications Act of 2009. While acknowledging efforts to develop the media environment, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060131.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a statement from the Sudan Media Forum, a conglomerate of Sudanese independent media houses that collaboratively advocate for press freedom and journalists&#8217; rights. The Ayin Network is a proud member of this forum. The Sudan Media Forum today voiced deep concern over the outcomes of a recent workshop held in Port Sudan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,16481,6137,7610,6284,7523,7077,4959,257,6010,8487,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-199670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amendments","tag-calls","tag-condemns","tag-forum","tag-independent","tag-law","tag-media","tag-news","tag-press","tag-proposed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}