ASMARA, Eritrea — Nearly 10 months after Pastor Oqbamichael Tekle-Haimonot was arrested at a wedding in western Eritrea, authorities at the Sawa military training center released the ailing evangelical leader on bail Nov. 9.
A minister in the Kale Hiwot — or Word of Life— Church, Haimonot suffered a severe breakdown last May after being subjected to solitary confinement, hard labor and other physical and emotional mistreatment at Sawa.
Christians jailed in a security police raid against 25 Kale Hiwot Church members at their Asmara church headquarters five weeks ago were all released on bail Nov. 8. (TAB)
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