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| 27 on trial for apostasy in Sudan |
| 2015-12-04 |
| KHARTOUM: Some 27 Sudanese are standing trial in a Khartoum court accused of apostasy, risking the death penalty if they are convicted, their lawyer told AFP on Thursday. The men are accused of taking the Holy Qur'an as the sole source of religious legitimacy and rejecting other Islamic texts. “The court in Kalakla in south Khartoum has started the trial of 27 defendants brought before it under Article 126 of Sudanese criminal law, apostasy from Islam,” defense lawyer Ahmed Ali Ahmed told AFP. They are also charged with disturbing the public order, Ahmed said. Ahmed said investigators told the court that police arrested five of the defendants on Nov. 2 inside a market in the southern Khartoum neighborhood of Mayo “when they were talking to people about their conviction in the belief in the Qur'an and how they don’t recognize” other religious texts. He said that others were arrested the next day for the same reasons. The defendants are accused rejecting the authority of the Sunnah, traditions attributed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) The trial of the 27 started last Sunday and went through four sessions during which the judge heard the investigators’ case against the men before it adjourned on Wednesday. It resumes on Dec. 8. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 "Apostate old man of Khartoum, Who lies in the Messenger's Tomb?" "Sure, him, and Costello, And that Abbott fellow..." Which doomed that old man of Khartoum. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2015-12-04 12:22 |