In Sudan wächst die Sorge vor einem Bürgerkrieg

VIELE TOTE, HUNDERTE VERLETZTE
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG: Armee und Paramilitärs kämpfen weiter erbittert um die Macht in Sudan. Die Gefechte in dem nordostafrikanischen Land reißen immer mehr Menschen in den Tod – die Lage bleibt unübersichtlich.

Auch am Sonntag gehen die schwere Kämpfe in Sudan weiter. Die schwere Staatskrise mit erbitterten Kämpfen zwischen Armee und Paramilitärs lässt das nordostafrikanische Land immer tiefer im Chaos versinken. Die Sorge vor einem Bürgerkrieg wächst.

Ärzten zufolge gab es keine 24 Stunden nach Ausbruch der Gefechte schon Dutzende Tote und Hunderte Verletzte zu beklagen – Tendenz weiter steigend. Eine sudanesische Ärzte-Organisation teilte am frühen Sonntagmorgen über Twitter mit, es gebe mindestens 56 zivile Todesopfer zu beklagen und Dutzende getötete Soldaten. Außerdem seien in Krankenhäusern und anderen Versorgungsstellen knapp 600 Verletzte gezählt worden, von denen Dutzende in Lebensgefahr schwebten. Für Rettungskräfte sei es unmöglich, in umkämpften Gebieten verletzte Zivilisten medizinisch zu versorgen, sagte die sudanesische Ärztegewerkschaft. Sie appellierte an die internationale Gemeinschaft, Druck auf beide Konfliktparteien auszuüben. Laut dem Roten Kreuz gerieten die Krankenhäuser an ihre Grenzen. » | Quelle: marf./dpa | Sonntag, 16. April 2023

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Offener Krieg auf den Straßen Khartums: In Sudan bekämpfen sich die Armee und eine mächtige Miliz offen. Ihre Allianz war seit Langem immer brüchiger geworden. »

Sudan’s Army Seizes Power in Coup and Detains Prime Minister

THE GUARDIAN: Military declares state of emergency and gunfire reported as protesters flood Khartoum streets

Sudan’s military has seized power in a coup, arrested leading civilian politicians including the prime minister, Abdalla Hamdok, and declared a state of emergency as thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Khartoum in opposition.

The Sudan Doctors’ Committee said late on Monday that three protesters had been killed and 80 people wounded after security forces fired on demonstrators. As night fell in Khartoum, witnesses described gangs of young men armed with sticks reportedly beating anyone found on the streets.

Sudan has been on edge since a failed coup plot last month unleashed recriminations between military and civilian groups who have been sharing power since the toppling of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir two years ago. With video » | A reporter in Khartoum and Peter Beaumont | Monday, October 25, 2021

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The Harsher Face Of Islam

The reality of Sudan's brutal Islamic leadership is revealed in this comprehensive and highly shocking documentary from 1994 which was nominated for Amnesty International Press Awards.

British Doctor Urges Muslim Doctors from Britain and Sudan to Join ISIS in Syria

Muslim Cleric Says Islam Sees No Distinction Between Combatants and Civilians, So Killing American Women and Children Is Fine

THE BLAZE: A radical Muslim cleric in Sudan with a history of incendiary statements against the U.S. now says that under Islam there is no distinction between combatant and civilian and thus American women and children are fair game for militant attacks.

“In its war with the infidels, Islam recognizes no distinction between regular armies and civilians,” said Sudanese cleric Muhammad Al-Jazouli at his Friday sermon, citing a fatwa, or religious ruling.

The Middle East Media Research Institute found video of the sermon and posted translated excerpts online.

In the sermon, Al-Jazouli said he had been “overjoyed” to hear of one particular hadith, that is, a tradition related to the prophet Mohammed.

Al-Jazouli quoted a statement once conveyed to the prophet Mohammed that when Muslims would attack “the polytheists at night, women and children would be harmed.” » | Sharona Schwartz | Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Sudanese Woman Meriam Ibrahim Walks Free from Prison

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death in Sudan for apostasy, has been freed, her lawyer says

Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, has finally walked out of prison - after six months behind bars.

"Meriam was released just about an hour ago," said Mohanad [sic] Mustafa, one of her lawyers.

"She's now out of prison," he told AFP, but said authorities will not issue the reasons for her release until Tuesday.

She has been transferred, he said, "to an unknown house to stay at for her protection and security."

"Her family had been threatened before and we are worried that someone might try to harm her," he told Reuters. » | Harriet Alexander | Monday, June 23, 2014

Meriam Ibrahim 'Should Be Executed,' Her Brother Says

Al Samani Al Hadi said his sister should be put to death if she
does not 'return' to Islam

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Meriam Ibrahim "should be executed," her brother has said, if she refuses to abandon her Christian beliefs

Meriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death in Sudan for apostasy, was “given a magic potion” to bewitch her into leaving Islam – and should be executed for doing so, her brother has said.

Al Samani Al Hadi Mohamed Abdullah said that he denounced his sister to the authorities because his family are “Muslim people.” He claimed that Ms Ibrahim, 27, was born as Abrar Al Hadi but changed her name when she was drugged by her husband, Daniel Wani. And he said that, if she did not return to the devout family fold, she should be hanged.

“It’s one of two; if she repents and returns to our Islamic faith and to the embrace of our family, then we are her family and she is ours,” he said.

"But if she refuses she should be executed," he told CNN.

His comments will fuel speculation that the denouncing of Ms Ibrahim was part of a family feud. An American NGO which is paying for the legal costs has claimed that Ms Ibrahim was targeted by jealous relatives who wanted to gain control of her clutch of successful small businesses - a supermarket, farm and beauty salon. » | Harriet Alexander | Thursday, June 05, 2014

Sudan Backtracks on Pledge to Free Woman Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The foreign office said on Saturday that Meriam Ibrahim would be freed within days but has now said that only Sudan's courts can decide


Sudan’s foreign ministry on Sunday repudiated a pladge the government would order the release of Meriam Ibrahim, the mother sentenced to death for apostasy, warning only the country’s courts could order her freedom.

Western nations including Britain have expressed outrage that Ms Ibrahim, who gave birth to her daughter Maya in prison last week, had been convicted of changing her faith from Islam to Christianity.

Sudanese officials suggested late on Saturday that the 27-year-old was to be released and her death sentence annulled.

But Abu Bakr al-Sideeg, spokesman for the foreign ministry in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, said on Sunday that only the courts had such powers and foreign ministry officials would have no power over Ms Ibrahim’s case.

“[I am] not aware that any release is imminent”, he added. » | Mike Pflanz, Nairobi | Sunday, June 01, 2014

Sudanese Woman Meriam Ibrahim Sentenced to Death for Apostasy 'To Be Freed'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman sentenced to death for apostasy, is to be freed in a few days, a senior Sudanese official has said. But her lawyers say they will not believe it until they see her walk out of prison

Sudan appeared to be bowing to international pressure on Saturday night to free a woman sentenced to death for apostasy. A foreign ministry spokesman said that Meriam Ibrahim would be released and not face further charges.

But lawyers for 27-year-old Ms Ibrahim expressed scepticism that she would be freed so quickly.

“It’s a statement to silence the international media,” said Elshareef Ali Mohammed. “This is what the government does. We will not believe that she is being freed until she walks out of the prison."

He said he had even heard reports that the spokesman was in the UK on medical leave when he told the BBC she would soon be freed.

“If they were to release her, the announcement would come from the appeal court, and not from the ministry of foreign affairs. But at least it shows our campaign to free Meriam is rattling them. We must keep up the pressure.” » | Harriet Alexander | Saturday, May 31, 2014

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World Leaders Back Campaign to Drop Sudanese Woman's Death Sentence

Daniel Wani married his wife Meriam in 2011 but the court
ruled the union invalid and found Ibrahim guilty of adultery.

THE GUARDIAN: British PM David Cameron and US activist Jesse Jackson speak out against death row detention of Meriam Ibrahim

World leaders have added their voices to the campaign to lift the death sentence given to Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for apostasy. They join her husband, Daniel Wani, in calling for the sentence to be dropped.

The British prime minister, David Cameron, and the US civil rights activist Reverend Jesse Jackson were among those to speak out after Wani appealed for international support to free his wife from death row, where she is being held with her two young children after giving birth in shackles this week.

Cameron said he was "absolutely appalled" when he heard of the decision. "The way she is being treated is barbaric and has no place in today's world. Religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right."

His words were echoed by the Labour and Lib Dem leaders, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, and the former prime minister Tony Blair described the sentence as a "brutal and sickening distortion of faith". » | Harriet Sgerwood | Saturday, May 31, 2014

Sudanese Woman Sentenced to Death for Apostasy Gives Birth

Meriam Ibrahim and husband Daniel Wani

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman awaiting the death penalty for refusing to convert to Islam, has given birth to a baby girl

The Sudanese woman who has been sentenced to hang for refusing to renounce Christianity has given birth to a baby girl named Maya, her lawyers told The Telegraph.

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, gave birth to the girl – her second child – in the early hours of Tuesday morning, in the hospital wing of the prison.

"They didn't even take Meriam to a hospital - she just delivered inside a prison clinic," As Elshareef Ali Elshareef Mohammed, her lawyer, told The Telegraph.

"But neither her husband nor I have been allowed to see them yet."

Mr Elshareef said he and Daniel Wani, Ms Ibrahim's husband, were still waiting outside the prison at 2pm in Khartoum (12.00 in the UK). » | Harriet Alexander | Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lawmakers Press Obama Team on Asylum for Sudanese Mom Sentenced to Death

Read the FoxNews article here | Lisa Daftari | FoxNews | Friday, May 23, 2014

Apostasy Case: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey Calls on British Muslim Leaders to Back the Right to Convert from Islam

Lord Carey said some ex-Muslims in the UK were forced
to 'almost go underground'

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, has called on leading British Muslims to support the right to convert from Islam to another religion after a court in Sudan sentenced a woman to death for apostasy.

The peer said it was “accepted doctrine” that Muslim converts should face the death penalty. He also said there were examples of ex-Muslims in Britain who had been forced to “almost go underground”.

“Isn’t there something fundamentally wrong with Islam at its core that it cannot allow people to change their religion?” he told The Sunday Times.

“It is accepted doctrine in Islam [that] you don’t convert and if you do the penalty may be death.” He added: “I want to hear Muslim leaders say ‘we allow Muslims to become Christians if they wish to’.” » | Ian Johnston | Sunday, May 18, 2014

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Pregnant Woman Faces Death in Sudan for Apostasy

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Christian woman sentenced to death for refusing to convert to Islam after being raised as a Christian

A Christian doctor has been sentenced to hang for apostasy, or the abandonment of religion, by a court in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.

Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, 27, who was born to a Muslim father but brought up a Christian by her mother, was convicted on Sunday and given three days to recant her faith or face a possible death sentence.

“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged,” Judge Abbas Mohammed Al-Khalifa told Mrs Ibrahim, addressing her by her father’s name, Adraf Al-Hadi Mohammed Abdullah. » | Lucy Kinder | Thursday, May 15, 2014

US Envoy in Sudan Forced to Resign after Accepting Islam

Sudanese local media sources said that the US envoy was
forced to resign after he turned to Islam

WORLD BULLETIN: The US charge d’affaires in Khartoum, Joseph D Stafford, resigned from his post after he converted to Islam, Sudanese local media sources said.

Stafford told the foreign ministry that his resignation was made for "personal reasons" but Sudanese sources claimed that the envoy was forced to resign after he turned to Islam.

Sources said that Stafford has recorded visits to the headquarters of Ansar al-Sunnah in Sudan and established a close relationship with a number of Sudanese clerics through these visits.
 
The U.S. State Department has not made any statement to confirm or deny the news on Joseph Stafford. » | News Desk | World Bulletin | Thursday, February 06, 2014

U.S. Won't Tolerate Efforts to Harm Americans: Obama
REUTERS.COM: President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any denigration of Islam but said there is no excuse for attacks on U.S. embassies, insisting he will never tolerate efforts to harm Americans.

"I have made it clear that the United States has a profound respect for people of all faiths," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "Yet there is never any justification for violence .... There is no excuse for attacks on our embassies and consulates."

Angry anti-American protests have swept the Muslim world in response to a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad. An attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others this week.

A day after Obama led a somber ceremony marking the return of the bodies of the Americans killed in Libya, Obama acknowledged that a surge of anti-American violence in the Middle East is disturbing.

The Pentagon is sending Marines to beef up security at the U.S. embassy in Sudan, following similar reinforcements to Libya and Yemen. » | Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Lisa Shumaker | Saturday, September 15, 2012

Angriffe auf westliche Botschaften: USA schicken Marines in den Sudan

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Einheiten der US-Marineinfanterie sind auf dem Weg in den Sudan. Dort hatten wütende Demonstranten nach der deutschen Botschaft auch die US-Vertretung attackiert. Der Uno-Sicherheitsrat fordert die islamischen Länder auf, ausländische Einrichtungen zu schützen.

Washington - Von Tunesien bis Pakistan - in vielen muslimischen Ländern ist es aus Empörung über einen in den USA produzierten islamfeindlichen Film zu einer Welle der Gewalt gegen Einrichtungen der USA gekommen. Die Vereinigten Staaten haben inzwischen auch eine schnelle Eingreiftruppe der Marineinfanterie in den Sudan entsandt, wie aus US-Regierungskreisen verlautete. Am Freitag hatte es nach dem Angriff auf die deutsche Botschaft auch die US-Vertretung in Khartum getroffen. » | abl/dapd/dpa | Samstag, 15. September 2012

Anti-Islam Film: German and UK Embassies in Sudan Attacked
BBC: Protesters angered by a film mocking Islam have attacked the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum.

Demonstrators started fires and tore down the German flag, raising an Islamist banner in its place.

Protests are taking place across the Middle East and North Africa.

In Cairo, police firing tear gas pushed about 500 protesters back from the US embassy. There were also clashes in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. » | Friday, September 14, 2012

Sudanese Woman Sentenced to Stoning [to] Death Over Adultery Claims
THE GUARDIAN: Intisar Sharif Abdallah tried without access to lawyer and is being detained with four-month-old baby, prompting outcry

A young mother found guilty of adultery in Sudan has been sentenced to death by stoning, prompting an outcry from human rights campaigners. Intisar Sharif Abdallah was tried without access to a lawyer and is being detained with her four-month-old baby, according to Amnesty International. Amnesty puts Abdallah's age at 20; Human Rights Watch says she may be under 18. Her family is appealing against the execution and it is unclear when it will be carried out. Abdallah, who may be under 18, only admitted to the charges at a later hearing after her brother reportedly beat her. The conviction was based solely [?] rests on this testimony. The man held with her reportedly denied the charges and was released.

Abdallah is said to be shackled by the legs and in psychological distress, unable to understand the nature of her sentence. Her other children are being cared for by family, who are [of] filing an appeal in Ombada. Jean-Baptiste Gallopin of Amnesty's Sudan team said: "The case is emblematic of the failure of the Sudanese judicial system. Intisar Sharif Abdallah was tried without access to a lawyer or a translator, despite the fact that Arabic is not her native language. She was convicted solely based on a testimony she gave under duress. She's being detained with her four-month old son, in a state of deep psychological distress. We call on the Sudanese authorities to stop the execution, overturn her stoning sentence and release her immediately and unconditionally. Read on and comment » | David Smith in Johannesburg | Thursday, May 31, 2012