“Sudan’s security service on Saturday ordered the closure of a community forum, one of the independently run TEDx events held around the world, even though it was non-political, the organiser said. ‘They unplugged the electricity,’ Anwar Dafa-Alla, who founded Sudan’s version of TEDx two years ago, told AFP. He said almost 1,000 people were attending the event at a luxury Khartoum hotel when officials stopped it before it was even half finished. The state minister of information and culture, Mustafa Tirab, said that the government ‘will do our level best to provide freedom of expression and freedom of speech for all those who are inside Sudan’.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/11/sudan-shuts-down-local-tedx-conference/
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