{"id":6662,"date":"2019-02-01T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:16:14","slug":"sudan-protests-authorities-order-release-of-all-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6662","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Protests: Authorities Order Release Of All Detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KHARTOUM, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Authorities in Sudan have ordered the release of all detainees held during weeks of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The release was ordered by Sudan&#8217;s intelligence and security chief, Salah Ghosh, the information ministry said in a statement. No reason was given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The chief of the National Intelligence and Security Service issued an order to release all detainees held in the ongoing incidents,&#8221; the statement said. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 1,000 people are reported to have been detained in the protests, which began in December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those detained included opposition leaders, activists and journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists said the announcement came after Salah Ghosh visited a prison in Khartoum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Omar al-Bashir has blamed the unrest on &#8220;foreign agents&#8221; and rebel groups in the Darfur region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, riot police in the capital Khartoum used tear gas to disperse dozens of demonstrators in the Burri district, witnesses said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also anti-government protests in the nearby city of Omdurman and in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demonstrations started over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies, but later developed into anger at the president&#8217;s 30-year rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rights groups say more than 40 people have been killed in clashes with security forces. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM, Feb 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Authorities in Sudan have ordered the release of all detainees held during weeks of anti-government protests. The release was ordered by Sudan&#8217;s intelligence and security chief, Salah Ghosh, the information ministry said in a statement. No reason was given. &#8220;The chief of the National Intelligence and Security Service issued an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}