Tag: NISS

Khartoum re-arrests pastor, holds others ‘pending serious charges’

May 27, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Bahri, Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Sudanese Church of Christ, Telal Rata

Five months since his initial detention, Sudan’s intelligence agency has re-arrested a local pastor. Rev. Kuwa Shamal joins at least two more Christian leaders in prison, awaiting charges that could carry the death penalty. He was re-arrested on May 24 by members of the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) . . . Read More

The UN is about to take a very close look at Sudan’s treatment of Christians

May 4, 2016 Bahri, Converts, Darfur, Hassan Taour, Human rights, International Criminal Court, Kuwa Shamal, Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Omar al-Bashir, Religious freedom, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Sunni, Telal Rata, UN

What is happening? The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights is scheduled to hold a 3 1/2-hour hearing in Geneva on Wednesday, 4 May, at which UN member nations will examine the state of human rights in Sudan. It promises to be an interesting meeting. Sudan’s president, . . . Read More

Khartoum keeps 5 Christian leaders under daily surveillance

April 11, 2016 Sudan Hassan Taour, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Peter Yen, Telal Rata, Yat Michael

Sudanese authorities have, apparently against their own law, continued to keep two church leaders incommunicado since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them; recently Sudan has also increased the number of church leaders who must report every day to its security services. Telahoon Nogosi Kassa Rata, a leader . . . Read More

Christian leaders kept in Sudan since December uncharged, but incommunicado

February 10, 2016 Sudan Hassan Taour, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, NISS, Nuba Mountains, Omdurman, Peter Yen, Telal Rata, Yat Michael

Sudanese authorities have been keeping two Christian pastors in an unknown location since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them. On 12. Dec., members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) visited the family home of Telahoon Nogosi Kassa Rata, a leader of the Fellowship of University . . . Read More

S. Sudan pastors await new appeal outcome

August 11, 2015 Sudan Khartoum, NISS, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

The lawyer responsible for defending the two South Sudanese pastors who were freed last week after months in detention in Khartoum has downplayed the decision by airport authorities to prevent them from leaving the country. “It will take some few days for the pastors to leave the country, but we . . . Read More

Freed S. Sudan pastors held at Khartoum airport

August 6, 2015 Sudan Khartoum, NISS, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

Pastors Yat Michael and Peter Yen have been stopped (but not re-arrested) at Khartoum airport after trying to leave the country following their release after Wednesday’s (5 Aug.) court hearing in the Sudanese capital. CSW reports that the appeal for the flight ban will be heard on 9 Aug. The two tried to leave . . . Read More

Date set for judge to question S Sudan pastors

June 26, 2015 Sudan Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Peter Yen, Sudan, Yat Michael

The prosecution in the trial of South Sudanese pastors Yat Michael and Peter Yen closed its case on 25 June after presenting its final witness, an officer of the National Intelligence and Security Service, but no new evidence. The two men will next appear in court on 2 July, when . . . Read More

No new evidence in South Sudanese pastors’ trial

June 17, 2015 Sudan NISS, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

Prosecutors could not present any new evidence at the Khartoum trial of South Sudanese pastors Yat Michael, 49, and Peter Yen, 37, which resumed on 15 June. At the latest hearing on Monday, officials from Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services repeated statements made earlier in the trial, according to . . . Read More

S. Sudan pastors face death penalty on charges of sedition and spying

June 4, 2015 Sudan Darfur, East Africa, Mariam Ibrahim, NISS, Peter Yen, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

After several false starts, the trial of two South Sudanese pastors, Yat Michael, 49, and Peter Yen, 37, who stand accused of crimes against the state of Sudan and could face the death penalty, has been rescheduled again to 15 June. The court is then due to hear testimony from . . . Read More

UPDATE: Trial of S. Sudan pastors begins, then is delayed

May 18, 2015 Sudan East Africa, Khartoum, NISS, Omdurman, South Sudan, Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church

UPDATE (19 May) After the 19 May start of the trial of Yat Michael and Peter Yein, the judge ordered a 12-day recess. Nahmia Shaloka, a Sudanese lawyer who left the country because of his human rights activity and now lives in the United States, said a judge of Khartoum . . . Read More

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