{"id":33145,"date":"2012-02-21T12:43:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33145"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:40:49","slug":"sudan-newspapers-confiscated-for-publishing-statements-by-islamist-opposition-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33145","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Newspapers confiscated for publishing statements by Islamist opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire print-run of two\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship : Sudan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Sudanese<\/a> newspapers were\u00a0<a title=\"Sudan Tribune : Sudanese newspapers confiscated for publishing statements by Islamist opposition leader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/Sudanese-newspapers-confiscated,41667\" target=\"_blank\">seized<\/a> by\u00a0The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) yesterday.\u00a0Al-Tayar and Al-Youm Al-Tali newspapers Monday (20 February) editions were confiscated after they published\u00a0statements made by Hassan al-Turabi\u00a0the leader of the Popular Congress Party (PCP). Turabi alleged that his office had been wiretapped by security services,\u00a0and showed journalists some of the listening devices he found.\u00a0Security agents arrived after midnight at the newspaper\u2019s Khartoum offices and seized the Monday edition. Twenty newspaper reporters protested the confiscation in front of the National Press Council, which licenses newspapers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire print-run of two\u00a0Sudanese newspapers were\u00a0seized by\u00a0The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) yesterday.\u00a0Al-Tayar and Al-Youm Al-Tali newspapers Monday (20 February) editions were confiscated after they published\u00a0statements made by Hassan al-Turabi\u00a0the leader of the Popular Congress Party (PCP). Turabi alleged that his office had been wiretapped by security services,\u00a0and showed journalists some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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":[540,584,585],"tags":[4339,4340,346,2318,4190,4338,727,7347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145"}],"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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33145"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33150,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33145\/revisions\/33150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}