FINDING HELL (AND HEAVEN): FREED CZECH CHARITY WORKER RECALLS HIS TIME IN SUDAN’S JAILS
In an in-depth report, ABIGAIL FRYMANN ROUCH, of World Watch Monitor speaks with Petr Jašek, a Christian Czech aid worker who spent more than 14 months in a prison in Sudan…
Czech aid worker recounts torture by IS convicts in Sudan prison
World Watch Monitor The Czech aid worker released in February, 2017, after being imprisoned for 14 months in Sudan on spying charges has revealed how he was tortured by fellow inmates. Petr Jasek explained at a conference in the US organised by charity Voice of the Martyrs that he was treated like a “slave” during […]
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 […]
Czech shared Sudan prison cell with Islamic State convicts who beat him up and abused him
World Watch Monitor A Czech Christian aid worker, freed from prison in Sudan on 26th February, has spoken of how the prison authorities treated him. “The first two months were probably the most severe for me because I was placed in a cell together with members of the Islamic State, who humiliated me as a Christian. It […]
Czech aid worker freed to fly to Prague after Foreign Minister visits Sudan
World Watch Monitor A Czech aid worker, Petr Jašek, 52, detained in Sudan since December, 2015, has been pardoned and freed by President Omar Bashir – after the Czech Foreign Minsiter Lubomir Zaoralek visited Sudan on the weekend to seek his release. He has flown back to Prague with the Foreign Minister on Sunday. World Watch Monitor has […]
Prague furious as Sudan sentences Czech Christian to 20 years
BosNewsLife (with DAVID ADAMS) The Czech Republic has condemned a Sudanese court’s ruling that sentenced a Czech missionary and film-maker to 20 years imprisonment, while a local pastor and a Christian activist have reportedly received a 12 year jail term. Shortly after Sunday’s ruling, Czech officials pledged to do everything they can to secure the […]
Czech aid worker gets 20 years for ‘war against’ Sudan
World Watch Monitor Czech aid worker Petr Jašek has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Sudan after being found guilty of charges which included waging war against the state, violating restrictions in military areas, spreading rumours to defame the state, and inciting strife between communities. He’s already been in prison for more than a year. The […]
Sudan acquits pastor in trial of Christians charged with capital crimes
Morning Star News A court in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday released a pastor from prison after acquitting him of charges punishable by the death penalty, sources said. Rev Kwa (also transliterated Kuwa) Shamaal, head of missions of the Sudanese Church of Christ (SCOC), was acquitted of charges ranging from spying to inciting hatred against the […]