ICC Note: Sudan is breaking its own law by holding two Christian leaders incommunicado since mid-December without being charged. Telal Nogossi and Hassan Kodi remain in custody after Sudanese intelligence officials detained them for questioning. Sudanese law requires defendants to be arraigned and charged within 45 days of arrest. The Sudanese state is notorious for arresting Christian leaders and charging them arbitrarily as a larger agenda to persecute the Church. Through the first half of 2015, authorities held Yat Michael and Peter Reith on trumped up charges of espionage before releasing the pastors in August.

2/10/16 Khartoum, Sudan (World Watch Monitor) – Sudanese authorities are keeping two Christian pastors in an unknown location since mid-December, with no official charges yet filed against them, sources have told World Watch Monitor.

On Dec. 12, members of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) visited the family home of Telahoon Nogosi Kassa Rata, a leader of the Fellowship of University Christian Students and a leader of Khartoum North Evangelical Church, sources close to the detainees said.

Telahoon (also known as Telal) Rata was told to ‘report’ to the local NISS office north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. “He went to the NISS office behind the airport at al-Mashtel the next day, and he has been detained ever since” the sources, requesting anonymity, said.

Meanwhile, two pastors from the Sudan Church of Christ, a denomination whose members originate predominantly from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan, were arrested by the NISS on December 18.

…