Fifty-seven teenage Eritrean Christians in North Africa jailed Aug. 19 and 20 under severe punishment for having Bibles at their military training camp remain locked in metal shipping containers, revealed inside sources.
Five of the 11th grade students, however, reportedly succumbed to a week of harsh treatment at the Sawa Military Training Camp where they were arrested. After signing an agreement to deny their evangelical beliefs and return to the Orthodox Church, the five were released.
During the first days following their arrests, the 62 young men and women were allowed to leave the containers briefly every morning at 6 to relieve themselves.
Their commanders, apparently angered by the failure to force most of the students to renounce their Protestant faith, have since refused the teenage conscripts basic sanitation necessities.
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