In the town of El Gadarif, on Sudan’s eastern border with Ethiopia, another Christian woman has been incarcerated in April under suspicion of having left Islam.
Immigration/Citizenship police questioned Faiza Abdalla, 37, as she was going to obtain her national identification number at an official building in El Gadarif on April 2. When she responded to officers’ questions about her religion that she was a Christian, they immediately arrested her based on her Muslim name, he said.
Her family had converted to Christianity from Islam before she was born but kept their former name, the source said. ‘They arrested me because I am a Christian’, said Abdalla, originally from an area in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, where her parents raised her in an evangelical church.
