ICC Note: Sudanese authorities forcibly removed a Christian headmistress from her post in June at the school affiliated with the embattled Khartoum Bahri Evangelical Church, according to Morning Star News. Gisma Saeed served at the Bahri Evangelical Christian School, one that serves a church congregation that has faced continuous intense persecution from the Sudanese government for several years. Most recently, the Sudanese government is trying to turn the school into a Muslim institution. At the beginning of July, 14 Christians were arrested at the same church for trying to prevent officials from seizing it. It is illegal in Sudan for committees to be imposed on churches that allow for the take-over of Muslim investors, but in practice, Muslim sharia law trumps the secular constitution, creating a massive legal contradiction. The church is the same where pastors Peter Yein Reith and Yat Michael Ruot had been arrested in late 2014 into early 2015. They were released in August 2015 after facing a death penalty trial.

07/22/2016, Khartoum, Sudan (Morning Star News) – Police in Sudan last month showed up at a Christian school, handed over a letter of dismissal of the headmistress and physically removed her, installing another teacher in her office, sources said.

Civilians supporting Muslim investors’ desire to take over the church property on which the Bahri Evangelical School stands in North Khartoum accompanied police who came to the site on June 2 and gave school leaders the letter of dismissal of headmistress Gisma Saeed. They then broke her office doors and replaced her with a teacher of their own, sources said.

Police also detained and released Saeed that day

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