{"id":41938,"date":"2019-12-14T23:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T23:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41938"},"modified":"2019-12-14T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T23:22:15","slug":"ex-sudan-leader-sentenced-to-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41938","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Sudan leader sentenced to 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Khartoum, Sudan (CNN)<\/cite>Former Sudanese President <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/specials\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\">Omar al-Bashir<\/a> has been sentenced to two years in a correctional facility after being found guilty of corruption and illegitimate possession of foreign currency.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 75-year-old dictator will be sent to a correctional facility, as anyone over the age of 70 cannot go to prison under Sudanese law.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Bashir was still held in the maximum-security Kobar Prison while he faced these charges  &#8212; and will return there on Saturday as he faces another upcoming trial.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum, Sudan (CNN)Former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a correctional facility after being found guilty of corruption and illegitimate possession of foreign currency.The 75-year-old dictator will be sent to a correctional facility, as anyone over the age of 70 cannot go to prison under Sudanese law.Bashir was still held&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938","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=41938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}