Today in the courtroom, I saw for the first time the “accused,” who had caused me great harm, had been absent for three hearings and had only appeared after his arrest by the judicial authority.
God knew my weakness and my sadness despite my claims otherwise, so He responded to me, and I am in the most despairing of justice.
Despite his young age, and that he is “the servant of the sheriff,” my heart towards him is like a stone, or even harsher.
That page that impersonated my name was not just a fabricated page like other pages, but it was a systematic act targeting “my journalist name” .. the most valuable thing I own.
With the help of the competent authorities, the accused was arrested and investigated. He admitted that he had fabricated the “page” that put paragraphs on my real columns, fabricated articles and reports in my name and spread false news, and that he was sometimes executed when asked..!
Any article, despite its absurdity, was spread in many media, and was transmitted by WhatsApp groups in a few minutes.
Thousands of daily unjustified insults, many false championships and ridiculous allegations.!
Beautiful patience, and God help you for what you describe.
I despair of writing, so what makes me write a column in an hour, to stay six hours in a continuous denial that “I did not write these words” ..!
The infamous page appeared, two weeks after I wrote a column in April of last year, in which I mentioned a line about the existence of an agreement between leaders of the Forces for Freedom and Change and the director of the security apparatus at the time, Salah Gosh, to open a path towards general leadership.
The page was publishing articles glorifying Gosh, insulting freedom and change, and claiming to expose leaks.
I have never met Gosh or communicated with him, and it does not harm me if I do that, as this is my profession. I meet with officials to obtain information, and I only meet with them for that, and I have interviewed those who preceded him in managing the intelligence service.
In fact, I conducted interviews with heads of intelligence services in African countries, in a remarkable scoop, as I met Arab, African and European heads of state, ministers, officials and envoys.
I do not remember that I did not interview a Sudanese official or that I did not seek to interview an official or a minister coming to Sudan during my 14 years of journalistic work.
A few activists, during and after that campaign, thought that the appearance of a picture of me with ousted President Omar al-Bashir or others would detract from me, but I excuse them, for they never practiced journalistic work. , will not come out of Al-Bashir, Qosh and Ibn Auf.
All my conversations with any former or current official were an asset to me and not an opponent.
However, I used to ask myself a lot.. What makes a journalist far from political affiliations, to give information that is subject to controversy, wrong and right, to launch campaigns on it by activists despite the fact that the leaders of these political activists make a pilgrimage to Gosh in exile in Cairo..?
What is the justification for these abuses while there are those who share millions of dollars in business while he is in power and fights in the name of corruption and even “drums him” ..?!
What makes activists who have apologized to the security services – despite my appreciation of their circumstances – are revolutionaries, braves and heroes, while we who have stood in front of the insults and absurdities of the security services have been steadfast for 14 years, to be cowards..?
What is this imbalance?
It is the darkness of the earth, but the justice of heaven meets it, even after a while.
I was patient with those who deserved patience, I responded to those who deserved to be answered, and I distanced myself from those coming and coming from the bottom of the city.
Whatever is said about a journalist who trusts that he was faithful to his profession, away from agendas and campaigns, bribes and envelopes, employment and sustenance, it will be like “foam” that floats and goes to no avail.
I have transgressed all those who offended and accused me falsely, but as for this accused and his instigators, mercy will not lose its way to my heart.
Thank you very much to the great lawyer, Dr. Abdul Azim Hassan and his crew.
Thank you to everyone who supported me with this grant that strengthened me, and to anyone who denied my writing that “scum”.
Thank you, my friends, my friends, and my co-workers.
Thank you, my father, my mother, my brothers, my uncles, my extended family, and the daughters of my parents whom I found by chance in a spherical clash.