{"id":4243,"date":"2025-04-15T16:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:44:02","slug":"arrest-of-senior-splm-io-politicians-in-warrap-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4243","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of Senior SPLM-IO Politicians in Warrap State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Warrap: Al-Wadi Newspaper<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local media reports from <strong>Warrap State<\/strong> have confirmed that <strong>security forces arrested several prominent politicians<\/strong> affiliated with the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement in Opposition (<strong>SPLM-IO<\/strong>) on <strong>Tuesday morning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those arrested are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kuech Mayar<\/strong>, Speaker of the Warrap State Legislative Assembly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Deng Kok<\/strong>, Legal Advisor to the State Government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both were reportedly taken to an <strong>undisclosed location<\/strong>. The arrests come amid <strong>accusations of incitement and creating unrest<\/strong> in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to eyewitnesses, <strong>armed security forces stormed the State Assembly building<\/strong> early this morning and detained the two officials. No further information has been released regarding their whereabouts or the charges they face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A crowd of concerned citizens and observers gathered outside the assembly building, closely following the unfolding developments amid an atmosphere of <strong>tension and uncertainty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of now, <strong>no official statements<\/strong> have been issued by either the government or SPLM-IO. More updates are expected as the situation develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warrap: Al-Wadi Newspaper Local media reports from Warrap State have confirmed that security forces arrested several prominent politicians affiliated with the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) on Tuesday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4245,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/4245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}