{"id":31289,"date":"2019-01-31T16:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31289"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:24:24","slug":"kurdish-deputy-freed-from-turkish-jail-vows-to-press-on-with-hunger-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31289","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish deputy, freed from Turkish jail, vows to press on with hunger strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"49\">\n<p>\nSudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year.<br \/>Sudan closed the border in early January, 2018, after Bashir announced a six-month state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kurdufan to help combat the trafficking of weapons and foodstuffs.<br \/>&#8220;I announce here, from Kassala, that we are opening the border with Eritrea because they are our brothers and our people. Politics will not divide us,&#8221; Bashir said in televised remarks before scores of supporters in the town of Kassala, which is near the border in eastern Sudan.<br \/>As Bashir was speaking in the remote town, the Sudanese Professionals&#8217; Association, a union that has led calls for demonstrations against his rule, called for fresh protests across several Sudanese cities on Thursday afternoon.<br \/>Sudan has been rocked by near-daily anti-government protests since Dec. 19, in which rights groups say at least 45 people have been killed. The government puts the death toll at 30.<br \/>Bashir struck a defiant tone in Kassala on Thursday about the protests.<br \/>&#8220;Changing the government and changing the president will not be through WhatsApp nor Facebook, but will be through the ballot box,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is our pledge and commitment before the Sudanese people&#8230;The decision is your right, the masses of the Sudanese people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year.Sudan closed the border in early January, 2018, after Bashir announced a six-month state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kurdufan to help combat the trafficking of weapons and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}