{"id":20569,"date":"2017-02-28T13:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T13:51:51","slug":"sudan-czech-missionary-freed-following-international-petition-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/02\/28\/sudan-czech-missionary-freed-following-international-petition-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"SUDAN &#8211; Czech missionary freed following international petition &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SUDAN &#8211; Czech missionary freed following international petition<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sudan&#8217;s President Omar al-Bashir has just ordered the pardon and release of Petr Ja\u0161ek, a Czech missionary who had been detained in a Sudanese prison since December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u0161ek&#8217;s release was announced last Sunday at a joint press conference in Khartoum between Sudanese foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour and Czech foreign minister Lubomir Zaoralek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;President Bashir has pardoned Czech national Petr Ja\u0161ek because of good relations between Sudan and the Czech Republic. Mr Ja\u0161ek will accompany the Czech foreign minister to his homeland,&#8217; Ghandour said.<\/p>\n<p>Zaoralek said: &#8216;I am very glad that we are able today to conclude the case of Mr Ja\u0161ek,&#8217; adding that the Sudanese government was now convinced that Ja\u0161ek &#8216;had no intention to undermine&#8217; them.<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u0161ek later flew back home to Prague with Zaoralek.<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u0161ek had gone to Sudan in the hope of helping persecuted Christians in the region. He was arrested in December 2015 after attempting to pay the medical costs of a Sudanese student. The Christian aid worker was convicted earlier this year of entering Sudan illegally, inciting hatred and spying on the military, for which he was sentenced to 24 years in jail. He was also fined 100,000 Sudanese pounds (about \u00a312,500) for working with an NGO without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>Ja\u0161ek\u2019s release was a result of a petition sent to the US State Department and another two online petitions organised by Citizen GO to free him, which gathered over 500,000 signatures worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>ACN Malta<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUDAN &#8211; Czech missionary freed following international petition &nbsp; Sudan&#8217;s President Omar al-Bashir has just ordered the pardon and release of Petr Ja\u0161ek, a Czech missionary who had been detained in a Sudanese prison since December 2015. 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