The Khartoum Monitor, an English-language paper, was ordered to shut down for a period of two days for publishing a column about AIDS, considered too graphic about sex, the newspaper said.
The National Press Council ordered publication suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday because the language used in the item, published about a month ago, "would lead to public immorality," Khartoum Board Chairman Alfred Taban said.
The National Press Council regarded the column as having been "too direct in describing sexual organs," Taban told AFP.
Back in August, the council ordered the independent Al-Ayam closed for a day as punishment for running an "indecent" article on female circumcision, in spite of a government-sponsored campaign against the practice. The article reviewed the problems circumcision causes for husbands and wives during sexual intercourse.
The council considered the explicit sexual references to be "a slur on public decency." (Albawaba.com)
