19) Yagoub Babur Soon after releasing them, they went back to the school and four of them left the group for personal reasons. This time the police arrested the remained fourteen who were there. They were released on 10th July 2016 with a condition of paying three hundred Sudanese pounds3 (an equivalent of $ 25 by then) The five who were excluded in the second arrest are; 1) 2) 3) 4) AzhariTambara William TelianKoumi William AndraowsEidan Yousif Algeraif Background of the case In 2012 after the cessation of South Sudan, there was an extra ordinary meeting (general assembly) that was held under pressure with observation of state/government and it was ensured that South Sudanese were excluded. The church committees were formed with scrutiny from the state/government under ministry of guidance and endowments which approved the selection. After one year, some members of the dissolved committee raised an objection to the ministry claiming that the assembly committed a forgery. The ministry accepted their objection and advised them to conduct an alternative assembly under police guidance. This was the time pastor/ Hamad Mohamed Salih was elected. Pastor (Jafar) commented that “pastor/ Hamad tried his best to be elected again on the new committee. Since he was excluded from the committee because of corruption, he is expecting to be questioned on many corrupt deals he was involved in” The first committee (which the followers considered to be legitimate) raised some objections which were ignored by the ministry even after they went to court and got a supportive court decision which was later interpreted differently by the ministry‟s legal advisor. Since then the conflict emerged between the two committees. The first committee supported by the followers (church members) and the second one supported by the ministry backed by police and NISS. The first committee experienced harsh treatment whereby they are arrested with their followers because they object to mistakes committed by the other committee like the many properties and investment contracts on the church land which were signed. In this case, the second committee came to hand over the school from the current administration to alternative 3 Officially government use Genaih the Arabic word for pound 7