NAIROBI, Kenya, January 21, 2019 (Morning Star News) – Having fled Sudan after authorities tortured and threatened to kill him if he refused to return to Islam, a Sudanese Christian now faces death threats in Egypt.
Unknown Muslims in Cairo began threatening him for his faith in Christ last year, 40-year-old Al Hadi Izzalden Shareef Osman said.
In a country where at least 2 million Sudanese migrants, including thousands of refugees, already face racial discrimination and resentment from Egyptians embittered by a cracked economy, Osman is threatened for turning to Christ, he said.
“My life is in great danger as Egypt is becoming an insecure place for me,” Osman told Morning Star News from Cairo.
He has received death threats by text and Whatsapp messages, on social media and verbally. After unknown persons on Aug. 15, 2018, raided his apartment and seized his passport, he has gone into hiding, he said. Osman was not at home at the time of the theft and has reported it to police.
Osman, who previously worked as a journalist in Sudan and has also won awards for his short fiction, said he left Khartoum in April 2014 after police from Sudan’s Criminal Investigation Department accused him of apostasy, punishable by death in Sudan.
National police arrested him from the streets of Khartoum, covered his eyes with a cloth and…
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