Sudan on Monday freed the country's top opposition leader, who was jailed for nearly seven weeks after calling on President Omar al-Bashir to surrender to face war crimes charges.
The release of Hassan Turabi, a senior Islamist ideologue, appeared to be an attempt to blunt opposition to the president, who is trying to rally support at home after an international tribunal issued a warrant for his arrest on charges he was behind atrocities in Darfur.
Upon his release, Turabi remained critical of the president's defiance of the International Criminal Court and of the government's expulsion of aid groups in retaliation for the warrant. But he did not repeat his …
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