{"id":179809,"date":"2016-09-06T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/umma-party-celebrates-ruling-against-members\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T14:15:00","slug":"umma-party-celebrates-ruling-against-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/umma-party-celebrates-ruling-against-members","title":{"rendered":"Umma Party celebrates ruling against members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The criminal court in Khartoum North sentenced an opposition party member to six months imprisonment, and another to paying a fine, for causing panic among the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile dozens of members and affiliates of the National Umma Party celebrated the ruling at the headquarters in Khartoum. The party's co-Vice President, Maryam El Sadig El Mahdi, described the sentence as “a pride, because the judge said that both have caused intimidation and panic among the security service”.<\/p>\n

Umma Party member Emad El Sadig was sentenced to imprisonment for six months anda fine of SDG10,000 ($1,629), while his brother Erwa El Sadig was sentenced to a year imprisonment and a fine of SDG20,000 ($3,257).<\/p>\n

The case of Emad goes back to 14 December 2015, when the NISS filed a complaint against him on charges of offending the security apparatus, along with disclosing its confidentialy sites, and vowing to assassinate staff members, through articles they published in social media sites.<\/p>\n

Emad's brother Erwa was arrested on 6 January 2016, on the same charges.<\/p>\n

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Detention of party leader<\/strong><\/p>\n

In May 2014, the Umma Party saw its leader, El Sadig El Mahdi, detained<\/a> by the NISS for denouncing the Sudanese paramilitary force and accusing the militias of committing war crimes in Darfur. El Mahdi was released in June. <\/p>\n