KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan released four journalists on Wednesday after detaining them for a week for trying to cover protests against a dam that provoked clashes with police and the deaths of four demonstrators.
"We were freed this morning and we've been told that there will be no charges filed against us," one of the four, Al-Fateh Abdallah from Al-Sudani newspaper, told AFP.
He added that neither he nor his colleagues -- Abu Obeida Awad from the daily Rai al-Shaab, Kassem Farahna from Alwan paper and Kadhafi Abdel Mottaleb from Al-Ayam -- had been mistreated during their detention in the north or after their transfer to a Khartoum prison.
They were arrested on June 13 while heading to report on a demonstration by residents of the Kajbar region in Sudan's Northern State against a dam project that they said could destroy their community.
Four people were killed and at least 10 wounded in the protest.
Sudanese journalists on Monday marched in Khartoum to demand the release of their colleagues, chanting: "No press without freedom! A free press or no press!"
