{"id":24402,"date":"2011-06-30T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24402"},"modified":"2011-06-30T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:43:07","slug":"sudan-editor-facing-possible-death-penalty-or-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24402","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Editor facing possible death penalty or life imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sudanese<\/a> opposition daily, Raj Al-Shaab, is facing the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty. Two weeks ago, Al-Amin had the release date for his <a title=\"ecoi.net: Journalists sensored, held in Sudan protests\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecoi.net\/local_link\/153885\/255720_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">five-year jail sentence <\/a>for &#8220;publishing incorrect information&#8221; and &#8220;attacking the state&#8221; brought forward to 3 July of this year. A new charge, brought by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS)<span>, accuses Al-Amin of causing deliberate injury to an agent when he was arrested in May 2010. <a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan halts printing of popular paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/06\/sudan-halts-printing-of-popular-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\">T<\/a><a title=\"Index on Censorship: Sudan halts printing of popular paper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/06\/sudan-halts-printing-of-popular-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\">his year<\/a> has already\u00a0seen\u00a0the arrest of more than 30 journalists in Sudan and a\u00a0popular newspaper has been prevented from printing five times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuzar Ali Al-Amin, the deputy editor of Sudanese opposition daily, Raj Al-Shaab, is facing the possibility of life imprisonment or the death penalty. Two weeks ago, Al-Amin had the release date for his five-year jail sentence for &#8220;publishing incorrect information&#8221; and &#8220;attacking the state&#8221; brought forward to 3 July of this year. A new charge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[202,727,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24414,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24402\/revisions\/24414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}