ICC Note:

According to the Sudan Tribune, the European Union’s Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion called on the Sudanese government to pardon two Sudanese pastors. Hassan Abdel-Rahim and Abdel-Moni’m Abdel-Mawla were sentenced to aid worker years after being falsely accused of colluding with a Czech aid worker. The filmmaker was condemned for espionage. The EU stated, that “the Envoy called for the pardoning of the two Sudanese pastor, sentenced along with the released Czech Missionary Peter Jasek.”

03/20/2017 Sudan (Sudan Tribune) – European Union Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion, Jan Figel, called on the Sudanese government to released two Sudanese pastors sentenced together with a Czech missionary last February.

Hassan Abdel-Rahim and Abdel-Moni’m Abdel-Mawla were sentenced to 12 years for colluding with the Czech filmmaker who had been condemned for espionage, waging war against the state and inciting hatred against religious congregations.

“The Envoy called for the pardoning of the two Sudanese pastors, sentenced along with the released Czech Missionary Peter Jašek,” said a statement released by the European Union delegation in Sudan at the end of Figel’s visit to the east African country.

Jašek has been pardoned by President Omer al-Bashir upon the request of the Czech government.

The statement further disclosed that the European envoy had been allowed to meet the human rights defender Mudawi Ibrahim in his detention who has been in custody without charge since last December.

Sources close to the file say Mudawi’s case will be soon filled to the court as the investigation have been concluded.

The envoy, according to the statement, discussed the constitutional amendments and their compliance with international human rights law and pointed that the importance that the legislative framework also reflects these standards.

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