Three Christians were detained and tortured for weeks in southern Sudan after soldiers reportedly at a Sudan Armed Forces checkpoint found one of them carrying a Bible, Morning Star News reported.
Hamza Haroon Ahmed is still recovering from injuries he suffered after SAF soldiers at a military checkpoint in El Daein, East Darfur state, detained him and two other Sudanese refugees as they re-entered Sudan from South Sudan on Jan. 16, according to the report. The three Sudanese Christians, who had re-entered Sudan in an effort to move their families away from war dangers to safety in South Sudan, were released in March.
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“Whose Bible is this?” a Muslim soldier asked them at the checkpoint, Ahmed said.
Ahmed admitted ownership as the Arabic-language Bible was in his bag, but his two companions, both recent converts from Islam, refused to abandon him and went to jail with him, he said.
All three Christians were jailed and tortured under harsh conditions, he said. During interrogations, one of the Muslim soldiers beating them with wooden sticks broke Ahmed’s right hand, he said.
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In December 2020, the State Department removed Sudan from its Special Watch List.
The Christian population of Sudan is estimated at 2 million, or 4.5 percent of the total population of more than 43 million.
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written and originally published by Morning Star News.
