{"id":1598826,"date":"2019-05-30T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p07b7y2k"},"modified":"2019-05-30T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:45:00","slug":"sudans-white-coated-uprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/05\/30\/sudans-white-coated-uprising\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\u2019s white-coated uprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan\u2019s doctors on the frontline. When ongoing street protests finally pushed Sudan\u2019s repressive president from power last month, it was the country\u2019s doctors many thanked. Ever since Omar al-Bashir\u2019s successful coup in 1989 they had defied him. Staging strikes, organising demonstrations, and campaigning for human rights, the country\u2019s white-coated men and women opposed all he stood for. In the last few months alone scores of them were jailed, beaten, tortured and some deliberately gunned down. Through the eyes of a murdered medic\u2019s family, Mike Thomson looks at the extraordinary role these unlikely revolutionaries have played in Sudan\u2019s uprising.<\/p><p>Produced by Bob Howard<\/p><p>(Image:Sudanese doctors protesting in Khartoum. Credit: Mike Thomson\/BBC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p07b7y2k\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan\u2019s doctors on the frontline. When ongoing street protests finally pushed Sudan\u2019s repressive president from power last month, it was the country\u2019s doctors many thanked. Ever since Omar al-Bashir\u2019s successful coup in 1989 they had defied him. Stagin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598827,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598826\/revisions\/1598827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}