{"id":311976,"date":"2025-12-12T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:49:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-ship-tracking-shows-skipper-oil-tanker-seized-by-us-heading-away-from-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/311976\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Ship-tracking shows Skipper oil tanker seized by US heading away from Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK sanctions Sudan paramilitary commander identified by BBC Verifypublished at 11:03 GMT<\/p>\n

11:03 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Matt Murphy
BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n

\"AbuImage source, X<\/p>\n

It’s been announced this morning that a Sudanese paramilitary commander – who was identified by BBC Verify killing unarmed captives – has been sanctioned by the UK government.<\/p>\n

Brig Gen Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris – also known as Abu Lulu – was filmed shooting dead at least 10 people after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city of el-Fasher in late October. <\/p>\n

Thousands of civilians are now believed to have been killed by RSF troops after the Sudanese military withdrew from the city in the Darfur region.<\/p>\n

A day after BBC Verify published its investigation into Abu Lulu, the RSF released footage showing him being led into a prison cell by paramilitary troops. The commander, who had regularly appeared in online propaganda videos, has not been seen since. <\/p>\n

In a statement, the Foreign Office said it believed Abu Lulu was “responsible for violence against individuals based on ethnicity and religion, and the deliberate targeting of civilians”. <\/p>\n

Sanctions were also announced against three other RSF commanders – deputy RSF leader Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, Gedo Hamdan Ahmed and Tijani Ibrahim Moussa Mohamed. All of the targeted individuals are subject to travel bans and asset freezes. <\/p>\n

You can read our investigation into Abu Lulu here<\/a>, and our wider examination of how the el-Fasher massacre unfolded here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK sanctions Sudan paramilitary commander identified by BBC Verifypublished at 11:03 GMT 11:03 GMT Matt MurphyBBC Verify senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-311976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}