ISTANBUL — A Sudanese convert to Christianity was forced into hiding the first week of February after severe beatings and torture by state security police, who for the second time refused to allow the former Muslim to leave Sudan through the Khartoum airport.
Church sources in Khartoum confirmed today that after Aladin Omer Agabni Mohammed checked in for his Sunday morning flight on February 3, he was again turned back by security authorities. He had been told the night before that the travel ban blocking his previous trip on Jan. 30 had been lifted, and that he should come to the airport the next morning to depart.
Instead, Mohammed was taken off for interrogation by two security officers and two soldiers, who confiscated his passport as well as $200 and 1,300 Sudanese dinars ($5) and then beat him severely.
When the police sent him away, he decided not to return to his previous lodgings and went into hiding. Mohammed’s family home has since been searched, with two of his brothers arrested by the police to force them to confess where their brother is hiding.
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