Eritrean Christians describe torture, imprisonment, to make them renounce their faith »
Posted By sunline 6 months ago in NewsChristians in Eritrea who were tortured and jailed for their faith have given searing accounts of the brutality they faced to Release International, which serves the persecuted church worldwide.
‘The government has imprisoned Christians, they are torturing Christians, they are killing Christians,’ says Hanibal, a Christian activist who is documenting the persecution in Eritrea. ‘Christians are treated like animals.’
Another prisoner, Hzkias, was chained and kept in solitary confinement in a tiny pitch-black cell for five months. He said that when he was finally let out, he ‘looked like another creature. My hair and nails were long. My body colour was yellow.’
Other prisoners have described being tortured to try to make them renounce their faith.
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