Tag: South Sudan

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

S. Sudan pastors accused of spying freed

August 5, 2015 Peter Yen, South Sudan, Yat Michael

Two South Sudanese pastors on trial in Sudan for, amongst other things, “spying” have been freed by the Judge of Khartoum North Central Court, Ahmed Ghaboush. Had they been found guilty of this, they could have faced the death penalty. Yat Michael had taken his child to Khartoum for medical . . . Read More

Sudan’s treatment of minorities ‘woeful’

June 24, 2015 Sudan Khartoum, Minorities, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Sudan, Yat Michael

In highlighting the case of two South Sudanese pastors on trial in neighbouring Sudan to the north, Yat Michael and Peter Yen, the BBC’s former correspondent there, James Copnall, throws light on Sudan’s treatment of its minorities (3%). He takes a close look at the reasons behind historical conflict before . . . 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

S. Sudan pastors’ trial in Khartoum delayed

May 14, 2015 Sudan Khartoum, NISS, Peter Yen, South Sudan, Yat Michael

German news agency, DPA, reports from one of its stringers in Khartoum that there’s been a delay to the trial of two South Sudanese pastors arrested and for a long time held without charge. Due to the absence of a representative from the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) today, . . . Read More

Fears growing for two South Sudan pastors held by Sudan intelligence

February 18, 2015 Khartoum, Protestants, South Sudan

Fears are growing for the welfare of two South Sudanese church leaders who are being held in unknown locations by Sudan’s intelligence services. Pastor Yat Michael and Pastor Peter Yen (also named as David Yein Reith in some reports) have now each been held for over a month after being . . . Read More

Sudanese ‘apostasy’ Mariam now in the US

August 4, 2014 Sudan Apostasy, Islamic extremism, Mariam Ibrahim, South Sudan, Sudan

The Sudanese death-row mother, Mariam Ibrahim, who’s been in global headlines for renouncing Islam, arrived in New Hampshire last week. She was accompanied by her two children and husband Daniel Wani, a dual US and South Sudanese citizen. The family was initially flown to Italy, where they met the Pope, . . . Read More

Mariam’s case highlights plight of Sudan’s Christians

July 16, 2014 Sudan Blue Nile, Darfur, Khartoum, Mariam Ibrahim, South Kordofan, South Sudan

The globally known apostasy case of the death-row mother Mariam Ibrahim, forced to give birth with her legs shackled, is only one of many examples of the religious discrimination that Sudanese Christians battle on a regular basis. The poverty-stricken Muslim country lost the majority of its Christian population to South . . . Read More

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