Chicago Tribune correspondent held as spy in Sudan

Paul Salopek, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, was charged with espionage and two other criminal counts in a Sudanese court Saturday, three weeks after he was detained by pro-government forces in the war-torn province of Darfur.

Salopek, 44, who was on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine, was arrested with two Chadian citizens, his interpreter and driver. If convicted, they could be imprisoned for years. Salopek was on a scheduled leave of absence from the Tribune when he and the two Chadians, Suleiman Abakar Moussa, the interpreter, and Idriss Abdulraham Anu, the driver, were detained Aug. 6. All three were officially charged Saturday with espionage, passing information illegally and writing “false news.”

Source: Tim Jones. Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0608270353aug27,1,1785295.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

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