The Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the EU called in March 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 Jasek. Since his pardon and release on 27 February 2017, supporters say there are no grounds to keep the other two in prison. Both prisoners had been arrested in December 2015 for ‘aiding and abetting’ Petr Jasek in his alleged ‘spying’.
Two months ago Revd Hassan Abduraheem and geologist Abdumonem Abdumawla were found guilty by a court in Khartoum of aiding Jasek to ‘spy’, incitement of hatred between religious groups, and propagation of false news. They were sentenced to 12 years in prison.
