{"id":276,"date":"2012-10-10T22:19:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?guid=00224801c885c5dac5a930a2ace2f2b8"},"modified":"2015-02-28T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T19:12:16","slug":"norwegian-diplomat-expelled-in-spying-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/276","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian diplomat expelled in spying case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-19903203\" class=\"postlink\">BBC<\/a>) - Sudan has expelled a Norwegian diplomat from the country in a tit-for-tat row over spying allegations.<br \/><br \/>The move was a response to Norway's expulsion on Tuesday of a Sudanese diplomat working in Oslo.<br \/><br \/>He was suspected of spying on Sudanese refugees in Norway. Neither diplomat has been identified.<br \/><br \/>Most European countries shun President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, accused of alleged war crimes.<br \/><br \/>In a statement, Sudan's foreign ministry said it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to inform him of the expulsion.<br \/><br \/>&quot;The foreign ministry told the Norwegian ambassador it hoped the incident would not harm bilateral ties,&quot; the statement said.<br \/><br \/>Norway's intelligence agency announced on Tuesday the arrest of a 38-year-old Sudanese immigrant they said had been secretly collecting information on Sudanese refugees and passing it on to the Sudanese diplomat.<br \/><br \/>The Sudanese ambassador denied the allegations of spying in an interview with Norway's national broadcaster NRK.<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-19903203\">BBC<\/a>) &#8211; Sudan has expelled a Norwegian diplomat from the country in a tit-for-tat row over spying allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The move was a response to Norway&#8217;s expulsion on Tuesday of a Sudanese diplomat working in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>He was suspected of spying on Sudanese refugees in Norway. Neither diplomat has been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Most European countries shun President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, accused of alleged war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Sudan&#8217;s foreign ministry said it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to inform him of the expulsion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The foreign ministry told the Norwegian ambassador it hoped the incident would not harm bilateral ties,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Norway&#8217;s intelligence agency announced on Tuesday the arrest of a 38-year-old Sudanese immigrant they said had been secretly collecting information on Sudanese refugees and passing it on to the Sudanese diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese ambassador denied the allegations of spying in an interview with Norway&#8217;s national broadcaster NRK.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/276\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}