Sudan charges opposition journalist with terrorism

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KHARTOUM, May 27 (Reuters): Sudan has charged a detained opposition journalist with terrorism and espionage and he has been tortured in custody, his lawyers said Tuesday.
U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch condemned the arrest earlier this month of opposition Islamist Hassan al-Turabi and four staff of his al-Rai al-Shaab paper, mouthpiece of Turabi's Popular Congress Party (PCP).
The rights group urged Khartoum to end repression of opposition politicians and press launched after an April election returned President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's National Congress Party (NCP) to power.
PCP lawyer Mohamed al-Alim said the deputy editor in chief of the paper, Abu Zur al-Amin, had been charged with terrorism, espionage and destabilizing the constitutional system.