It was reported in late November that a Christian lawyer helping to promote religious freedom in Sudan has fled the country after authorities threatened to kill him if he failed to report to them every day, the attorney said.
Security officials arrested him at his home in Khartoum in May and seized his documents, laptop and internet modem, interrogating him for eight hours.
Interrogation
While in custody, they interrogated him about many things, including workshops he conducted on freedom of religion in Sudan.
If he failed to report to their office on a daily basis, the officials threatened to kill him. Later in the year, he managed to flee to another country, where the now-destitute Christian from the Nuba Mountains has few options but feels that his life is in less jeopardy.
As a rights worker for a Christian organisation, the lawyer had been collaborating with other civil society groups urging Sudan to include religious freedom provisions in the constitution to replace the Interim National Constitution that grew out of the 2005 peace agreement with southern Sudan.
