Christianity not welcome in Sudan, warns jailed pastor’s lawyer
World Watch Monitor Christianity is “not welcome” in Sudan, according to the lawyer who defended a church leader and an activist abruptly released from jail last month. Muhanad Nur, who represented Rev Hassan Abdulraheem Taour and Darfuri activist Abdumonem Abdumawla, told the Sudanese news service Nuba Reports: “It seems as if every week I am hearing about another […]
Two men convicted of aiding Czech Christian ‘spy’ released in Sudan
World Watch Monitor (with DAVID ADAMS) Two Sudanese men who were jailed with the Czech aid worker, Petr Jasek, were released from prison in Khartoum on Thursday after a presidential pardon. Abdumonem Abdumawla and Rev Hassan Abduraheem Taour were arrested in December, 2015, for “aiding and abetting” Jasek in his alleged ‘spying’. In January this year all three men were […]
EU envoy calls on Sudan to release two convicted of aiding Czech Christian ‘spy’
World Watch Monitor The Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the EU, Jan Figel, who visited Sudan in mid-March, has called for the pardon of two jailed Sudanese men, one a leader in the Sudan Church of Christ. Both men were sentenced with the now-released Czech aid worker Petr […]