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Sudanese Pastor's Son Freed From Khartoum Prison After More Than a Year

Amin Ismail, whose father refused to hand church land to the state, is out of Kobar Prison but still in danger in the capital, International Christian Concern says.

By Watchman News Staff, KHARTOUM, Sudan
Published 12:33 PM EDT, Thu October 29, 2026 · 1 min read

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KHARTOUM, Sudan —

Amin Ismail, the son of a Sudanese pastor who fled the country after refusing to give up church land, has been released from Kobar Prison in Khartoum after more than a year behind bars, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported Oct. 23. Christian Daily International carried the report on Oct. 29.

Ismail was arrested in July 2025, the day after he returned to the capital to visit his wife, according to ICC. The group said courts repeatedly found him innocent, yet he stayed in prison.

His father, Pastor Ismail Azzaz, left Sudan after resisting government pressure to surrender church property amid efforts to bring churches under state control. ICC also linked the case to a powerful man in the capital who it said wanted Amin's wife, and said there were attempts to get Amin out of prison so he could be killed. The group did not name those involved.

Ismail is now in a safe place but has not left Khartoum, and ICC said his life remains at risk. “I know it was the Lord who opened the door,” he told the group, thanking God and ICC for their prayers and help. Pastor Azzaz, still in exile, welcomed the release but fears for his family.

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The case comes amid wider pressure on church property in Sudan. ICC reported in September 2025 that authorities sought to take control of property of the Sudanese Church of Christ's Marzouq branch in Khartoum, and in October 2025 police in Atbara, River Nile state, arrested Presbyterian evangelical pastor Daud Fudul Kachu during a property dispute; he was freed the next day after a church lawyer stepped in.

Sudan's war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which began in April 2023, has destroyed buildings, scattered church members and disrupted ministries. Watchman News has not independently confirmed the details of the case.

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