Sayed Mossa has been in a Kabul, Afghanistan jail for six months awaiting trial, although he has not been formally charged with a crime. Mossa was arrested May 31 after footage was nationally televised of Muslim converts to Christianity being baptized. In jail, he’s been regularly beaten and sexually molested, as he wrote of in a letter (scroll to the bottom). He has a wife and six children, one of whom is disabled. If he is tried for apostasy, which many of his friends anticipate, the judge may use Sharia (Islamic) law to reach a verdict because apostasy is a “crime” not referenced in the Afghan penal code.
International Christian Concern (ICC) is asking those concerned to contact the Afghan Embassy or Consulate in their country, and politely ask Afghan officials to grant Sayed Mossa a fair trial that recognizes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Afghanistan is bound.
Others believe that Mr. Mossa is requesting that people send him letters as a way of encouraging local officials to voluntarily end his ill-treatment lest trouble come from outside agencies.
Of course, we should also pray for Mossa’s release (James 5:16) and perseverance, and that these events would be used of God to spread boldness and courage among his people in Kabul and the surrounding regions (cf Acts 14:22).