MEE correspondent Mohammed Amin has been refused a visa to travel to the UK and attend a prestigious journalism awards ceremony in London this week.
Amin was due to be present at the One World Media Awards, to be held next Wednesday, where he has been nominated for the Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting from Sudan.
But on Thursday he was told by the Home Office that his application for an eight-day visa had been refused because it believed he did not have a genuine reason for coming to the UK and that he would not leave the country afterwards.
Amin, who is Sudanese and has been to Britain many times, including to receive other prestigious journalism awards, said he was angered by the decision, which he called unreasonable.
“There’s a contradiction between British journalists, who consider what is happening in Sudan, and the UK government, which organises conferences about Sudan [in London] but denies visas for journalists.”
