Sudan’s Game of Catch and Release

Expand Sudanese protesters chant slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman on January 31, 2019. © 2019 Stringer/AFP/Getty Images Salah Abdalla “Gosh,” director of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), announced the release this week of 186 so-called “protest” detainees, but said nothing about the fate of the hundreds still locked up in the wake of the bloody, and ongoing, crackdown.   Since mid-December, when protests started across the country, Sudanese authorities have responded with violence – shooting dead at least…

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