Sudan Arrests Aid Workers in Darfur

Reuters reports that

Sudan arrested a second aid worker over a report on rape in Darfur and is also holding a man who translated for Kofi Annan when the U.N. chief met rape victims in the region, U.N. and aid officials said on Tuesday.

News of the arrests came a day after the authorities detained a senior official from international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Sudan, whose remote region of Darfur has been plagued by more than two years of bloodshed.

The aid worker held on Tuesday was also from MSF Holland, which published a report in March detailing about 500 cases of rape over a period of 4 1/2 months in Darfur, where a rebellion has raged since early 2003.

So, for reporting what the Sudanese government and its agents are doing, they get arrested by the very people they are reporting on. The translator was arrested for accompanying Kofi Annan inside a reed hut to translate the words of a pre-pubescent rape victim, after the government gave its assurance that no one would be harmed for speaking the truth.