administration but, the current one could not allow the hand over which caused their arrest. Arrest of Christians in Medani On 9th September 2016, in relation to the church committees‟ conflicts, a group from the second committee headed by Suliman Ali Nemir accompanied by police and NISS came to Medani evangelical school in order to change the school administration. This raised the disagreement because the school administration refused them and asked for official warning and to be given some time. This led to a clash and the school headmaster pastor/ Samuel Suliman, Pastor/ Salim and others were arrested by police. They were released after two hours. The arrested group went ahead and opened a case against the second committee. The judge ordered the committee to stop any procedure till court makes a decision (judgment). The conflict is still going on (appendix - 1). Later, on 5th October 2016, the police in Medani arrested nine (9) Christians including their leaders; 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Pastor/ Samuel Suliman Pastor/ Zakaria Ismail Pastor/ Salim Elsheikh Jenwar Mukaram Burei Kodi Abdelmaseeh Shazali Jomma (Police officer) Musheira Musa Abakar The arrest also happened in relation to the church committee‟s conflicts. The arrest happened when the second committee that was headed by Hamad came to force eviction of some people occupying the houses belonging to the church without notifying them. People that occupied the houses requested for some time but the committee rejected their request and this resulted into a conflict. Then the police which had companied the committee members arrested the people that occupied the houses. They were released under bail on 9th October 2016. Arrest of Teacher On 3rd December 2016, Saeed Abbas Abdel Fatah, 55 years old, teacher at Evangelical School, former SPLM-N member, he received a Telephone call from NISS member (office) requesting him to report at NISS office near Shandi park station at Khartoum North. On reporting, he was questioned about his political activity and was released the second day. On 5th December 2016, he was called up again to NISS office. From there, he was taken to security custody at Coober prison. 15

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