{"id":182177,"date":"2015-09-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:30:00","slug":"sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Journalist Waleed El Doud El Hussein,&nbsp;working for the Sudanese opposition news site <\/strong><em><strong>Alrakoba,<\/strong><\/em><strong> has been held for more than one month Saudi Arabia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saudi security officers transferred him to the city of Dammam, the Sudanese Journalists Association for Human Rights (JAHR) said in a press release today.<\/p>\n<p>El Hussein told his relatives who were allowed to visit him that he is treated well and that his immigration status is not in question. However, the JHR statement did not mention why he is being&nbsp;held and if he was formally notified of a pending extradition request by Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>JAHR claims it received confirmed reports that El Hussein is targeted by Sudan&rsquo;s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) for publishing and administrating <em>Alrakoba.net<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese human rights watchdog fears that he will be subjected to torture and may face death in case he is deported to Sudan, &ldquo;as the Sudanese security organs demand&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Alrakoba<\/em> started in 2005 as a dialogue forum. The following year it became a news website, exposing human rights abuses and cases of corruption and bad governance in Sudan. The website is very popular among the Sudanese in the country and abroad despite repeated attempts by the authorities to block it.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Al Riyadh and Khartoum significantly improved in March this year when Sudan joined the Saudi led-military coalition against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction 2015\/09\/04 17:20: In a later statement by <\/em>Alrakoba<em>,&nbsp;El Hussein turned out to be the founder of the newspaper. He has been detained in Saudi Arabia since 23 July.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, Waleed El Doud El Hussein, administrator and editor of the Sudanese opposition news site Alrakoba was held at his home in El Khobar in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi security officers transferred him to the city of Dammam, the Sudanese Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) said in a press release today.<\/p>\n<p>El Doud told his relatives who were allowed to visit him that he is treated well and that his immigration status is not in question. However, JHR statement did not mention why he is being held and if he was formally notified of a pending extradition request by Khartoum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last Thursday, Waleed El Doud El Hussein, administrator and editor of the Sudanese opposition news site Alrakoba was held at his home in El Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Saudi security officers transferred him to the city of Dammam, the Sudanese Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) said in a press release today. El Doud told his relatives who were allowed to visit him that he is treated well and that his immigration status is not in question. However, JHR statement did not mention why he is being held and if he was formally notified of a pending extradition request by Khartoum.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dabangasudan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cropped-dabanga-logo-zondernaam-512x512-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Radiodabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Radiodabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dabanga\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dabanga\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8286733fdc3467934c628badb2395f23\"},\"headline\":\"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\"},\"wordCount\":270,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\",\"name\":\"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dabanga Radio TV Online\",\"description\":\"Independent news from the heart of Sudan\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Dabanga Radio TV Online\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/dabanga-logo-naam-512x512-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/11\\\/dabanga-logo-naam-512x512-1.png\",\"width\":512,\"height\":512,\"caption\":\"Dabanga Radio TV Online\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/dabangasudan\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/Radiodabanga\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8286733fdc3467934c628badb2395f23\",\"name\":\"Dabanga\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dabanga.preview.websight.nl\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online","og_description":"Last Thursday, Waleed El Doud El Hussein, administrator and editor of the Sudanese opposition news site Alrakoba was held at his home in El Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Saudi security officers transferred him to the city of Dammam, the Sudanese Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) said in a press release today. El Doud told his relatives who were allowed to visit him that he is treated well and that his immigration status is not in question. However, JHR statement did not mention why he is being held and if he was formally notified of a pending extradition request by Khartoum.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","og_site_name":"Dabanga Radio TV Online","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dabangasudan\/","article_published_time":"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":512,"height":512,"url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cropped-dabanga-logo-zondernaam-512x512-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dabanga","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Radiodabanga","twitter_site":"@Radiodabanga","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dabanga","Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia"},"author":{"name":"Dabanga","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/8286733fdc3467934c628badb2395f23"},"headline":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia","datePublished":"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia"},"wordCount":270,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#organization"},"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia","name":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia - Dabanga Radio TV Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-09-02T10:30:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-editor-detained-in-saudi-arabia#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sudanese editor detained in Saudi Arabia"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/","name":"Dabanga Radio TV Online","description":"Independent news from the heart of Sudan","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#organization","name":"Dabanga Radio TV Online","url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/dabanga-logo-naam-512x512-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/dabanga-logo-naam-512x512-1.png","width":512,"height":512,"caption":"Dabanga Radio TV Online"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dabangasudan\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Radiodabanga"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/8286733fdc3467934c628badb2395f23","name":"Dabanga","sameAs":["https:\/\/dabanga.preview.websight.nl"]}]}},"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","rssfeed":"","rss-feed-image":"","covernews-slider-full":"","covernews-slider-center":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","covernews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Dabanga","author_link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/author\/websight"},"category_info":"Uncategorised","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}