A Christian woman, who converted from Islam, was held captive in her home and beaten by her Muslim family in late April for refusing to renounce her faith in Christ.
‘Gulum’, who has a two-year-old son, was held in her home for two days by her family before being taken to the mosque in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, where she was held and questioned intensively by Islamic clerics in front of her son.
Gulum remained strong in her faith and asked her interrogators if they had the right to beat her. She was then allowed to return home. Her husband and many other relatives remain very hostile to her Christian faith. Gulum is also under pressure from local clerics to return to Islam and fears possible arrest.
